NINTENDO CO.

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1889 - 1956: The Beginning of The Beginning

Founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi at Kyoto prefecture, Japan as a playing card
game company. Started off by producing Hanafuda and the company was
named Nintendo Playing Card Co., Ltd at that time.
Hanafuda

Hanafuda Facts
Japanese traditional cards can be used in different card games, for example, Koi
Koi. Hanafuda is derived from the words Hana meaning flower and Fuda
meaning cards.

2007 Mario themed

Hanafuda cards

1956 - 1974: Finding companys identity

1956 Hiroshi Yamauchi, the grandson of Fusajiro Yamauchi,
went to U.S. and talked with United States Playing Card
Company.
1963 Yamauchi renamed Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd. to
Nintendo Co., Ltd.
1963 - 1968 Established another company called Daiya as a
taxi company. Later, with labor union problem, Nintendo got
forced to sell this taxi company. Nintendo didnt only try out
Taxi but also a love hotel chain, a TV network, a food
company, and many more.

Hiroshi
Yamauchi
1927-2013

1956 - 1974: Finding companys identity

1964 After Tokyo Olympics , the sales of playing cards
dropped harshly. Nintendos stock price plummeted to
its lowest recorded level of 60.
1966 Nintendo changed into a toy industry with the
Ultra Hand developed by Gunpei Yokoi. There were also
some more toys that Nintendo released in this period
too.

Ultra Hand, the first

Nintendo Toy

Gunpei Yokoi

1974 - 1978: A successful random step

1974 - Magnavox Odyssey video
game consoles rights were
secured in Japan

Magnavox
Odyssey

1975 Nintendo moved into video

arcade game industry with EVR
Race
1977 Started to produce its own
hardware (e.g. Color TV Game)
Color Tv game

1979 - 2003: Huge Success of Nintendo

1979 Gunpei Yokoi came up with the idea of a
handheld video game
1980 Nintendo launched Game & Watch, a handheld
video game series developed by Yokoi
1981 Released Donkey Kong
1982 - Added D-Pad to the Donkey Kong handheld
game

1979 - 2003: Huge Success of Nintendo

1983 Launched the Family Computer home video game console in Japan (known as
FamiCom)

Family Computer

Nintendo
Entertainment
System

1985 FamiComs reworked version outside of Japan called Nintendo Entertainment

System (aka NES) was published. Super Mario Bros was released and it was a big sucess.

1979 - 2003: Huge Success of Nintendo

1988 Nintendo came up with the new Game Boy handheld
system. It was released in 1989.
Game Boy
1990 The Super Famicom was released in North America
1995 Nintendo released the Virtual Boy. The system was a
failure and Yokoi retired from Nintendo.

Super
famicom

1979 - 2003: Huge Success of Nintendo

1996 Released Nintendo 64 in Japan and North
America
1997 Released Nintendo 64 in Europe and
Australia and released Game Boy Pocket in Japan.
Gunpei Yokoi died in a car crash. SNS-101 was
released. Shigeru Miyamoto (current Creative
fellow of Nintendo) was hired.

Shigeru Miyamoto
Nintendo 64

1979 - 2003: Huge Success of Nintendo

1998 Game Boy Color was released
2001 Nintendo introduced the
redesigned Game Boy Advance.
GameCube was released.

Game Boy
color
Satoru Iwata
1959 - 2015
Game Boy
Advance

2002 Yamauchi retired. Satoru

Iwata became the president.
2003 Game Boy Advance SP was
released.

GameCube

2004 - 2011: Continuation of Nintendos success

2004 Released Nintendo DS. It became a
huge success

Nintendo
DS

Nintendo DS
Lite

2005 Released Game Boy Micro. Opened

Nintendo World Store in New York City
2006 Released Nintendo DS Lite.
Released Wii
2008 Released Nintendo DSi

Wii

2009 Released Nintendo DSi XL

Nintendo DSi

2011 - 2015: Advance to the Next generation

2011 Released Nintendo 3DS
2012 Released Wii U
2013 Released Nintendo 2DS
3DS

Wii U

2014- Amiibo was released. It could

be used for additional in-game
contents or collectible items.

2015 - Present: We must go further

Became partners with DeNA (a
smart device game producer).
Pronounced
D-N-A

Codename NX was
announced to be revealed
in 2016.

2015
Iwata died from a bile
duct tumor, Tatsumi
Kimishima became
Iwatas successor.

2015 - Present: We must go further

NXs spec rumor was leaked, Announcement
that NX would be released worldwide on
March 2017 was officially announced

Miitomo was
released

2016
Pokemon Go was released
in July and it was a big
success worldwide

Pokemon Gos Origin

Pokemon Gos idea was only planned to be
just a 2014s April Fools joke called Google
Maps: Pokemon Challenge but John
Hanke, the Niantic Founder, decided to
make the idea come true by using the
same genre of their existing game Ingress
as a prototype. After Iwata and Pokemon
Company confirmed about this project, he
started the project. Before the pass-away
of Iwata, he had a high expectation for
Pokemon Go project.

Pokemon Core Series

Pokemon Go is now well known world wide, but only few people knew about
its core series. There is a total of 6 completed generations and 1 upcoming
generation of Pokemon Series and this is the list of the games and its original
consoles:
Gen1: Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow (International) (GameBoy)
Gen2: Pokemon Gold, Silver, Crystal (GameBoy Color)
Gen3: Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen
(GBA)
Gen4: Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver
(DS)
Gen5: Pokemon Black, White, Black2, White2 (DS)
Gen6: Pokemon X, Y, OmegaRuby, AlphaSapphire (3DS)
Gen7: Pokemon Sun, Moon (Coming Soon) (3DS)

Marios Debut
The well known Mario wasnt Nintendos first game. Their very first games
were Game and Watch and Donkey Kong. Donkey Kongs protagonist was an
unnamed man and was referred to as Jump Man. After Mario was released,
many people believed that Jump Man was Mario.

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