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1889-1972

Nintendo's history goes back to 1989. they wereby Fusajiro Yamauchi on September 23, 1889. They called themselves Nintendo kupi. Nintendo loosley translates to leave luck to heaven. in 1889-1965 They produced hanfuda cards, With handmade drawings. The drawings were not of plumbers or knights they were drawings of flowers. in 1959 they started painting disney characters on their cards.

1972-1985

In 1972 before pong was made nintendo decided to try their hands in video games. In 1977, they released Color TV Game 6 and "Color TV Game 15 (6 and 15 indicates the number of games). Then in 1975 they made their first arcaade game called EVR race. Quickly followed by donkey kong. Donkey Kong was a very succsesfull arcade cabnet that fetured a red plumer named jump man trying to save his girlfriend poline who got stolen from donkey kong. Then they made an arcade cabnet called mario bros. that arcade cabnet was a two player where nintendo put jumpman but they changed his name to Mario and gave him a brother named Luigi. In the arcade cabnet you try to run away from the villins and stay a live. After this arcade cabnet they made video game consoles. donkey kong arcade cabnet
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bibliography

wikipedia and the suprisingly long history of nintendo.

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