"There was a certain culture of secrecy, taken to extremes within Nintendo, that made it very squeamish about trying new ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi began manufacturing Japanese playing cards called Hanafuda for his company Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo would become the biggest card-selling company in the ...

Also read: Cards to consoles: Nintendo opens first museum Hiroshi Yamauchi, company president for over half a century between 1949 and 2002, "hated" the idea of any kind of company mascot ...