Mario (A short summery on Nintendo)
Bags Becerra
History
Nintendo is a name that almost everyone is familiar with. They're the creators of some of the most well known games such as Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, and Mario. Nintendo is one of those company’s that make such good games that they make the fans want more. Believe it or not Nintendo actually didn’t start from making games. Nintendo’s founder Fusajiro Yamauchi actually created Nintendo to create Hanafuda cards. This continued until 1929 when Fusajiro passed the company onto is his son in law Sekiryo Kaneda. Nintendo continued to make Hanafuda cards until 1949 when he retired and passed the company down to Hiroshi Yamauchi. This would be where Nintendo takes on a whole new appearance. In the late 70’s Hiroshi thought of expanding Nintendo to the United States. In that time arcade machines were the new big thing. Expanding to the United States did not go over so well because the children didn’t seem to take any interest in Nintendo’s products. According to the Nintendo Wiki, “ Many children in the U.S. did not show much interest in Nintendo’s products, like Sheriff or Radar Scope.” (Nintendo Wiki 1) Nintendo tried to build a new foundation for Nintendo but was having some trouble doing so. Hiroshi went to Shigeru for help. This was the beginning of something big for Nintendo. (Nintendo Wiki 1)