Nintendo

the beginning

Oct 5, 1889

Nintendo began as a playing cards manufacturer, their Hanafuda playcards were very popular.

Nintendo

Jan 1, 1941

Gunpei Yokoi was born in 1941 and grew up in Kyoto where he graduated from Doshinsha University with a degree in electronics.

nintendo

Oct 5, 1985

He was first hired by Nintendo in 1965 to maintain the assembly-line machines used to manufacture its Hanafuda cards.

new beginning

Aug 5, 1992

Nintendo of America Inc. registered the configuration of its hand-held game machine.

movin on

Oct 27, 1996

Yokoi left Nintendo in August, 1996 to set up his own toy company, Koto Co., in Kyoto.