Hiroshi Yamauchi, the man who transformed video game giant Nintendo into what it is today from its root as a playing-card company, died Thursday in Kyoto, Japan, from pneumonia. Yamauchi was 85 ...

Hiroshi Yamauchi — who transformed his great-grandfather’s playing-card company, Nintendo, into a global video game powerhouse — died Thursday in Kyoto, Japan. He was 85. The cause was ...

Donkey Kong, Super Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda: For Hiroshi Yamauchi, the hits kept coming — but he enjoyed none of them. “I have better things to do” than play video games, he told ...

Hiroshi Yamauchi continued to enjoy his successes as the 8-bit era led into the age of the 16-bit Super Nintendo, then on through the Nintendo 64's life cycle and finally to the launch of the ...

Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Japanese businessman that transformed Nintendo who used to make business card collection to become one of the leading gaming companies in the world, died at 85 years of age.

Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran Nintendo for more than 50 years and led the Japanese company’s transition from traditional playing-card maker to videogame giant, died Sept. 19 of pneumonia at 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.

Hiroshi Yamauchi, former president of Nintendo, speaks at a press conference on the occasion of his stepping down from the company's top slot in Kyoto, Japan in 2002.

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, died Sept. 19 at a hospital in ...

Hiroshi Yamauchi served as Nintendo's president and CEO during a 53-year term during which he oversaw the company's transformation from trading card maker to video game giant and the release of ...

The death Thursday of longtime Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, at age 85, is the rare occasion, like the passing of Steve Jobs, when even those of us who don’t read ...