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creation
Nintendo was a small Japanese company that was originally founded by fusajiro yamauichi in 1889 and they produced hanafuda cards. -
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nintendo timeline
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next president
in 1929 fusijiro retired as the founder of nintendo and handed his company down to his adopted son sekiryo. -
joined company
sekiryo joined his company with another and renamed it to yamauchi nintendo and co. -
sudden change in leaders
hiroshi the grandson of sekiryo becomes the next president of the company after his grandfather's death -
change
hiroshi started to create toys for children as well as sell playing cards -
deal
nintendo sets a deal with disney to allow disney characters to be on their cards before their cards were more for older audiences that gambled but now these cards could be targeted towards younger audiences. -
first video game console
the first electronic video game console made by nintendo called the odyssey -
first video arcade game
in 1975 they created their first video arcade game called evr race -
gameboy
in 1989 nintendo created one of the most popular game consoles at the time and is even known today and it made over 118 million dollars -
nintendo 64
june 23 1996 another very popular game consoles known as the nintendo 64 was released. It sold over 500,000 units on the first day of its release. -
nintendo ds
nintendo created a portable video game console that was touch screen sensitive and was the first of its kind known as the nintendo ds which was released on november 24 2004 -
lawsuit
nintendo suffers an accusation and lawsuit by another company that the technology in the controllers violates their patent in 2006 august -
wii u
in november 18 2012 nintendo released the wii u -
death of ceo
current ceo satoru dies from a tumer -
announcement
nintendo announces a new system they are creating known as the nintendo switch which is to be released in 2017