Started by Noor Rahman (@noor_reads) ·
Nintendo started in 1889 making playing cards
Kyoto, 1889, hanafuda cards. In the 60s it tried running a taxi company and selling instant rice, got close to going under, and was rescued by an extending grabber toy that one of its maintenance engineers had built for fun.
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How I got here
- Started with
- What did Nintendo make before video games?
- Ended at
- Gunpei Yokoi
The Trail
- “what did nintendo make before video games” (google.com)
- Nintendo (en.wikipedia.org)
- Hanafuda (en.wikipedia.org)
the flower cards it started out making by hand
- Hiroshi Yamauchi (en.wikipedia.org)
ran the company for over 50 years
- Ultra Hand (en.wikipedia.org)
- Gunpei Yokoi (en.wikipedia.org)
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