Minoru Arakawa started Nintendo of America in 1980 at the request of his father-in-law, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Tokyo - 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 ...

The story of Nintendo does not begin in the 1980s with Hiroshi Yamauchi, but a century before. Nintendo Koppai was founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, an artisan of karuta: playing cards.

In 1992, Nintendo’s then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi went out and bought a majority stake in the Seattle Mariners baseball team. It was one of the most 90s things Nintendo ever did, but today ...

Editor's note: Hiroshi Yamauchi, the visionary former president of Nintendo, passed away on September 19 at the age of 85. Yamauchi was notoriously private; he rarely made public appearances or ...

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.

I suspect that many businesses have looked to Hiroshi Yamauchi with no small amount of awe and envy over the past fifty years or so. As Nintendo’s third president, this industry legend was ...

Source: Telegraph.co.uk Nintendo leaves trading cards behind Hiroshi Yamauchi led Nintendo from 1949 to 2002, transforming his great-grandfather's playing card company into a video game empire.

Hiroshi Yamauchi was the entrepreneur who turned his company Nintendo into an electronic gaming giant. During his more than half a century with the company, he transformed the focus of the ...

Hiroshi Yamauchi, who died on Thursday aged 85, transformed his family's Japanese playing-card company into a powerful global force in the video game market, enthralling players over several ...

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.