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Fujasiro Yamauchi begins manufacturing "Hanafuda" (flower cards) game cards in japan.
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These Western-themed playing cards were supposed to be sold off elsewhere, but they became very popular in Japan and the rest of the world. the card company expands.
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Yamauchi founds the company Nintendo, and still focuses on the playing card industry.
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Fujasiro Yamauchi hands the operation of Nintendo and co. down to his son, Hiroshi, who headed the manufacturing of Nintendo and co.
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Nintendo becomes the first game company to successfully distribute plastic playing cards of any type in Japan.
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Nintendo decides to print cards of walt disney characters. Children all over are smitten with the plastic/paper rectangles, and Nintendo's decision results in a boom in the cards market.
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Nintendo invests in game development as well as the cards market. This was obviously a good decision.
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The first microprocessor was employed in a Nintendo video-gaming system.
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The first Donkey Kong game was created in 1980, with a main character called "Jumpman" (To be renamed later as Mario), who tries repeatedly to rescue a woman named Pauline from a crazed ape (Donkey Kong).
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The game boy, the first ever hand-held, portable gaming device with interchangeable game cartridges was released in 1989 in Japan along with Tetris.
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After only six years, Nintendo manages to sell a staggering one billion game cartridges.
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Nintendo releases the wildly popular pokemon games to europe in 1999.
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Nintendo's Game Boy becomes the most popular gaming console in history as it had sold 100 million copies at that point
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In June, just a couple months after the DS was released in Europe, it sold a total of 1 million copies throughout the continent.
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The Wii is released at the end of the year and becomes very popular among people who played Nintendo's games before, and those who never really interacted with video games.
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At the beginning of summer, Super Mario Galaxy 2 kicks off with the return of Yoshi, interesting new powerups and game mechanics.
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Both of these futuristic new gaming consoles are released during the same year, massively increasing Nintendo's popularity and account balance. This is easily one of the biggest events in Nintendo's recent history.
