Nintendo: Difference between revisions

Nintendo (view source)

Revision as of 08:54, December 14, 2023

1,210 bytes removed , 5 months ago

→‎History: trimmed to be concise and relevant to this wiki

Platform

7,107

edits

@@ Line 14: / Line 14: @@
 {{multiple image|align=left|direction=vertical|image1=Nintendo - Obsolete logo.svg|image2=Nintendo Logo.svg|width=180|footer=The company's [https://www.2020colours.com/e4000f signature red] logo from 1975 to 2006 (top) and gray logo from 2006 to 2015 (bottom). The gray logo is still used in corporate pages.}}
 [[File:Regiones comerciales de Nintendo.svg|thumb|Regions where Nintendo's products are available]]
-Nintendo was originally founded in Kyoto, Japan on September 23, 1889, by [[nwiki:Fusajiro Yamauchi|Fusajiro Yamauchi]] to produce handmade {{wp|hanafuda}} cards for use in Japanese card games. As other companies withdrew from cardmaking due to hanafuda's popularity with the {{wp|yakuza}}, Nintendo quickly became the biggest name in the business.<ref>Bunting, Geoffrey (May 2, 2022). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20230123182255/https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-birthplace-of-nintendo The birthplace of Nintendo]". ''GamesIndustry.biz''. Archived January 23, 2023. Retrieved December 8, 2023.</ref> Eventually, in 1929, the company was passed on to Yamauchi's son-in-law, {{wp|Sekiryo Kaneda}}. He took up the Yamauchi name when he married Fusajiro's daughter, Tei Yamauchi. Kaneda would run Nintendo until 1949, when he retired due to his failing health and passed Nintendo down to his grandson, [[Hiroshi Yamauchi]]. Under Hiroshi's leadership, Nintendo would dabble in a number of different businesses before sticking primarily to toymaking. Nintendo entered the arcade industry in 1973 and the home console industry in 1977, simultaneously hiring [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] as a product designer. In 1979, Nintendo began making arcade video games, licensing titles to other companies for distribution outside Japan. The following year, Nintendo established a North American division headed in Redmond, Washington by {{wp|Minoru Arakawa}}, and the first game that would be distributed by the American division would be ''[[nwiki:Radar Scope|Radar Scope]]''. The game did not sell well in the United States, and a number of unsold cabinets remained in warehouses.
+Nintendo was originally founded in Kyoto, Japan on September 23, 1889, to produce handmade {{wp|hanafuda}} cards for use in Japanese card games. [[Hiroshi Yamauchi]], the company's third president, began diversifying Nintendo's ventures. Nintendo entered the arcade industry in 1973 and the home console industry in 1977, simultaneously hiring [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] as a product designer. In 1978, Nintendo began making arcade video games, licensing titles to other companies for distribution outside Japan. In 1980, Nintendo established a North American division headed by {{wp|Minoru Arakawa}}, and the first game that would be distributed by the American division would be ''[[nwiki:Radar Scope|Radar Scope]]''. The game did not sell well in the United States, and a number of unsold cabinets remained in warehouses.
-Arakawa asked Hiroshi if a new game could be developed and inserted into the unsold ''Radar Scope'' cabinets.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191109000531/https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/09/14/ign-presents-the-history-of-super-mario-bros "IGN Presents: The History of Super Mario Bros."]</ref> Hiroshi went through Nintendo's entire talent pool to see who could head the designing of a potential ''Radar Scope'' replacement, and the result was Miyamoto designing ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]''. When ''Donkey Kong'' was released, it became a bestseller. Around this time, Nintendo assigned [[Gunpei Yokoi]] to make a handheld console for enjoyment while traveling. Thus, Yokoi made the [[Game & Watch]], which became popular in both Japan and the United States. In 1983, Nintendo introduced the Famicom, distributing it abroad as the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] two years later. Its success in Japan and North America resulted in Nintendo becoming a dominant player in the video game industry and the revival of the industry in North America, which had been negatively affected by a crash in 1983. The most successful game for the NES, ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', further cemented Nintendo's dominance in the industry. In 2002, Hiroshi Yamauchi stepped down from office, giving the position to [[Satoru Iwata]], who later became CEO of Nintendo's American branch and held both posts until his death in July 2015. Afterwards, [[Tatsumi Kimishima]] was appointed Iwata's successor in September 2015, until he stepped down on June 28, 2018, and was succeeded by [[Shuntaro Furukawa]].
+Arakawa asked Yamauchi if a new game could be developed and inserted into the unsold ''Radar Scope'' cabinets.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191109000531/https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/09/14/ign-presents-the-history-of-super-mario-bros "IGN Presents: The History of Super Mario Bros."]</ref> Yamauchi went through Nintendo's entire talent pool to see who could head the designing of a potential ''Radar Scope'' replacement, and the result was Miyamoto designing ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]''. When ''Donkey Kong'' was released in 1981, it became a bestseller and marked the introduction of Mario. In 1983, Nintendo introduced the [[Family Computer]], distributing it abroad as the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] two years later. Its success in Japan and North America resulted in Nintendo becoming a dominant player in the video game industry and the revival of the industry in North America, which had been negatively affected by a crash in 1983. The most successful game for the NES, ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', further cemented Nintendo's dominance in the industry. The ''Super Mario'' franchise has since become Nintendo's flagship franchise and one of the most well-known brands to originate from video games.
 ==Appearances in the ''Super Mario'' universe==