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The interactive documentary is mostly a story about how hard it is to improve Tetris — and it’s missing key versions ...

One of the joys of Nintendo's Switch is how it marries the company's home console heritage with its equally prestigious ...

Hiroshi Yamauchi, company president for over half a century between 1949 and 2002, "hated" the idea of any kind of company ...

Roki Sasaki, potentially the best pitcher to ever come out of Japan, is set to join MLB next season. Do the Mariners have a ...

Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran Nintendo for more than 50 years and led the Japanese company’s transition from traditional playing-card maker to video game giant, has died. He was 85 This advertisement has ...

Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi approached Miyamoto for help designing a new game. Miyamoto wasn’t a programmer; he had only ever worked on the artwork for games. Because of this ...

Nintendo's playing card business flourished under the leadership of Hiroshi Yamauchi, Fusajiro Yamauchi's grandson, who took over as Nintendo's president in 1949. Nintendo's hanafuda cards were ...