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COMPANY

Founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi in 1889, originally offering hand-painted playing cards. After decades of success with playing cards, they moved into electronics with the Kousenjuu Beam Gun in 1970, and introduced their first home video game, Color TV Game 6, in 1976. Released Donkey Kong in 1981, Super Mario Brothers in 1985, Game Boy in 1989, GameCube in 2001, and Wii in 2006.

Official Website:
http://www.nintendo.com/

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Cambria W. Dunaway
Business
c. 1962   EVP at Nintendo of America

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Koji Kondo
Electronic Musician
13-Aug-1960   Theme to Super Mario Brothers
Shigeru Miyamoto
Business
16-Nov-1952   Nintendo Game Designer
Alexey Pajitnov
Computer Programmer
c. 1956   Helped invent Tetris


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