Fusajiro Yamauchi - Nintendo founder

Who would have thought that one of the main characters died in the gaming world and 12 years ago, the first video game was invented?

• Name: Fusajiro Yamauchi
• Birth: 1859
• Death: 1940
• Mark in the history of the Games: founder of Nintendo

At the end of the 19th century, and it was for the citizens of Japan on this issue with playing cards. Since 1633, the Japanese government has a ban on all cards and play games in foreign experimental set up to deter illegal gambling, and continued been so finally developed with almost every gaming card again for years to come 250 for the game in Japan do, that the government, Hanafuda, a card game, pictures are used instead of numbers for this game.

Taken with playing cards Ban lasting impact on the public, Hanafuda posted lackluster results. When it seemed that the game is almost a young entrepreneur, Fusajiro Yamauchi be forgotten, came up with a new approach to enhance the most popular games. Instead of just as general illustrations for use with the game, it is designed to work unique handwork that will lead the sales charts. In 1889, opening the doors of its first store Hanafuda leaves, Nintendo Koppai, a name that would simply change from Nintendo that the company has grown and developed.

Nintendo Hanafuda cards were painted on the success and the success of not only weave a newly formed company by hand, but increases the popular card game also. Hanafuda cards with them now in demand Nintendo quickly became first game company in Japan and in the next 40 to expand Fusajiro years in a large company is a small shop, an extensive library of Nintendo developed specifically for add original cards and packages.

In 1929, at the age of 70, Fusajiro finally retired, gave up his job at the expense of his adopted son-in-law Sekiryo Kaneda (which takes its name Sekiryo Yamauchi changed).

Over the next 11 years Fusajiro remained of gambling business until his death in 1940, Fusajiro have not that the company that was founded on innovation, with the increase a different kind of game after four decades Nintendo Entertainment System .

Today, Nintendo is one of the dominant forces in the market in the gaming world. The Post she and the nation's unity Nintendo Wii sell more than 10 million consoles in a year for the first home video game.

Although he does not know, or check video games without Fusajiro Yamauchi, that the Revolution was the gaming market in Japan, Nintendo never had the opportunity to do it later in the 120-year-old again.