Yamauchi oversaw the launch of Nintendo's first-ever games console, the Color TV Game 6, and was in charge for all of the company's most famous gaming triumphs. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at ...

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 hospital in ...

Hiroshi Yamauchi, the shrewd Japanese businessman who moved Nintendo into the video game business and made it a world leader, has died. He was 85. He ran Nintendo for 53 years and remained the ...

TOKYO — Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran Nintendo Co. for 53 years and was once ranked Japan’s richest man, has died, the company said. He was 85. Yamauchi was also the majority owner of the group that ...

TOKYO - Former Nintendo Co Ltd President Hiroshi Yamauchi, who built the company into a video game giant from a maker of playing cards during more than half a century at the helm, died on Thursday of ...

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 central ...

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. Kyoto-based Nintendo ...

TOKYO--Nintendo announced today that former company president Hiroshi Yamauchi, 77, will be stepping down from his position on the board of directors after a shareholder meeting on June 29. Yamauchi ...

News of the gaming pioneer's death -- he grew Nintendo from a maker of playing cards into a global tech giant during his 53-years as CEO -- got the Tokyo Game Show off to a solemn start on Thursday.

Japanese businessman, Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran Nintendo for 53 years, has passed away due to complications of pneumonia. He was 85. In an email, the company confirmed Yamauchi’s death, and said that ...

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Hiroshi Yamauchi didn’t invent video games. He wasn’t the man responsible for first putting video games in the home—not in the specific sense of the word “first,” anyway. But Hiroshi Yamauchi was, ...