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Nintendo began as a playing cards manufacturer, their Hanafuda playcards were very popular.
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Gunpei Yokoi was born in 1941 and grew up in Kyoto where he graduated from Doshinsha University with a degree in electronics.
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He was first hired by Nintendo in 1965 to maintain the assembly-line machines used to manufacture its Hanafuda cards.
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Nintendo of America Inc. registered the configuration of its hand-held game machine.
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Yokoi left Nintendo in August, 1996 to set up his own toy company, Koto Co., in Kyoto.
