No one started making video games til the 70s
Is there anybody out there really thinking Nintendo was making video games in the 1800’s?
I think that the surprise is that Nintendo is as old as it is.
Japan has some very old companies. IIRC the oldest company in the world was a construction company in Japan that went under a few years ago.
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Kongo Gumi. Guess I was wrong – they didn’t actually go under. Still around, but now a subsidiary of another company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongō_Gumi
Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組, Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company, purportedly founded in 578 A.D.,[3] making it the world’s oldest documented company. The company mainly works on the design, construction, restoration, and repair of shrines, temples, castles, and cultural heritage buildings. While Kongō Gumi historically specialized in traditional architecture, increased competition from major construction companies due to the growing use of concrete in shrines and temples resulted in the company becoming a subsidiary of the Takamatsu Construction Group in January 2006.[4][5]
Here’s a list of the ten oldest companies in the world. The top five are all Japanese:
https://www.worldatlas.com/industries/the-oldest-companies-still-operating-today.html
Yeah, to be clear, that was what I was intrigued by. That they existed for nearly 100 years before their rise as a video game power.
Saddly im sure there are.
TIL I’ve read my last complimentary article.
Surely by now this is one of Nintendo’s most well known facts?
I don’t know and don’t call me Shirley.
Edit: For those who don’t know the history:
What a terrible day to stop sniffing glue!
They also have a history with gambling that they really want you to forget.
Wait, they weren’t making video games in 1889? Huh
It would have been really hard with the technology of that era. They barely had the electricity, let alone the “video” part.
It was the style at the time
Oh…Nintendo has QUITE the colorful past. Heh.
Wait until you read about the 60s…
Is that around the time they were supposedly managing love hotels?
Shhhhhh, I specifically didn’t say that so he’d actually research it, and be like “They did WHAT???”
Don’t spoil it!
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_playing_cards
The variety of western playing cards they offered were massive, and included decks of various sizes, from poker size to bridge size to whist size, and even really tiny decks.
They also sold Kyoto Souvenir playing cards, a deck meant for foreign tourists in Japan which featured images of various landmarks around Kyoto, as well as Nude Cards, a deck marketed towards adult males which feature scantilly-clad and sometimes nude female models on the faces of the cards.
Huh.
video was not even a decade old, and still all on film. Makes sense that they waited until the tech was more mature before trying to use it for games
I still play with Nintendo hanafuda several times a week!
Now I just need a new game about Mario saving his brother
From court
