Hiroshi Yamauchi
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TOKYO — Hiroshi Yamauchi, who transformed his great-grandfather’s playing-card company, Nintendo, into a global video game powerhouse, died on Thursday in Kyoto, Japan. He was 85. Enlarge This Image Toru Yamanaka/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Hiroshi Yamauchi in 1999. The cause was complications of pneumonia, the company said. Mr. Yamauchi, who led Nintendo from 1949 to 2002, was Japan’s most unlikely high-tech success story. Named president of the family business at 22, he steered Nintendo into board games, light-emitting toy guns and baseball pitching machines — fruitless forays that he later attributed to a “lack of imagination” — before the company arrived at arcade games. Its Donkey Kong and the original Mario Bros. became hits and gave rise to Nintendo’s wildly successful home video game business. |
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R.I.P. Hiroshi :(
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I had no idea the company had been around that long. Founded in 1889.
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