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 ...

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, 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, 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.

Earlier today, we reported on the sad news that former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi had passed away at the age of 85.For many younger Nintendo fans, the name might not mean anything ...

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 ...

The death of Hiroshi Yamauchi marks the end of an extraordinary career that spanned 53 years, during which the Nintendo president not only changed a company but left his mark on the very nature of ...

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, 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, the man who transformed Nintendo into a videogame giant, has died at 85. A Nintendo spokesman tells BBC News that the company is today mourning the “loss of the former Nintendo ...