Nintendo was founded in Kyoto by Fusajiro Yamauchi to make hanafuda, traditional Japanese playing cards, which were sold from a small shop. Its fortunes grew in the twentieth century as it moved into other products, and in the 1970s it entered the video game business. The company reached worldwide fame in the 1980s with the Nintendo Entertainment System and characters such as Mario and Donkey Kong, created by Shigeru Miyamoto. It later introduced the Game Boy, the Wii and the Switch, and its franchises include Zelda and Pokemon. It is one of the oldest and most successful companies in the video game industry.
Before and after
- 11 June 1889Birth of Anna Akhmatova
- 5 July 1889Birth of Jean Cocteau
- 8 July 1889Launch of The Wall Street Journal
- 21 September 1889Founding of General Conference on Weights and Measure
- 23 September 1889Founding of Nintendo
- 26 September 1889Birth of Martin Heidegger
- 11 October 1889Death of James Prescott Joule
- 14 November 1889Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru
- 20 November 1889Birth of Edwin Hubble
More in Society, economy & sport
- 12 May 1792Founding of New York Stock Exchange
- 17 February 1863Founding of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- 23 June 1894Founding of International Olympic Committee
- from 6 April 1896 to 15 April 1896The first modern Olympic Games open in Athens
- 1903Rise of Bolsheviks
- 1907Rise of scouting
The era
This moment belongs to the Industrial era (1760 CE to 1914 CE), steam, factories and revolutions. You can also browse everything in the 19th century.