Nintendo worldwide-Company History 1889-1979
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1889 |
| Fusajiro Yamauchi began manufacturing "Hanafuda," Japanese playing cards in Kyoto.
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1902 |
| Mr. Yamauchi started manufacturing the first playing cards in Japan. Originally for export, the product became popular in Japan as well as abroad.
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1933 |
| Established an unlimited partnership, Yamauchi Nintendo & Co.
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1947 |
| Began a distribution company, Marufuku Co. Ltd.
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1950 |
| Hiroshi Yamauchi, grandson of the original president, took office as President and absorbed the manufacturing operation of Yamauchi Nintendo & Co.
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1951 |
| Changed the company name from Marufuku Co. Ltd. to Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd.
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1952 |
| Consolidated factories were dispersed in Kyoto.
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1953 |
| Became the first to succeed in manufacturing mass-produced plastic playing cards in Japan.
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1959 |
| Started selling cards printed with Walt Disney characters, opening a new market in children's playing cards. The card department boomed!
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1962 |
| In January, listed stock on the second section of the Osaka Stock Exchange and on the Kyoto Stock Exchange.
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1963 |
| Changed company name to Nintendo Co. Ltd. and started manufacturing games in addition to playing cards.
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1969 |
| Expanded and reinforced the game department; built a production plant in Uji City, a suburb of Kyoto.
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1970 |
| Stock listing was changed to the first section of the Osaka Stock Exchange. Reconstruction and enlargement of corporate headquarters was completed. Started selling the Beam Gun series, employing opto-electronics. Introduced electronic technology into the toy industry for the first time in Japan.
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1973 |
| Developed laser clay shooting system to succeed bowling as a major pastime.
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1974 |
| Developed image projection system employing 16mm film projector for amusement arcades. Began exporting them to America and Europe.
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1975 |
| In cooperation with Mitsubishi Electric, developed video game system using electronic video recording (EVR) player. Introduced the microprocessor into the video game system the next year.
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1977 |
| Developed home-use video games in cooperation with Mitsubishi Electric.
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1978 |
| Created and started selling coin-operated video games using microcomputers.
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1979 |
| Started an operations division for coin-operated games.
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