Before becoming a company video game, Nintendo ever long past experiences. Starting from the business into a taxi company, hostel accommodation, and several other small businesses. Until now, Nintendo is not only focused on video games, the company also owns a majority stake in a sports club in Washington. Nintendo has recently also invested in a company engaged in the manufacture of sensors. Still, there are many other stories that ever lived Nintendo before successful.
1. Nintendo Ever Make Cards Related Games Yakuza group
Nintendo Game CardsNintendo was first established in 1889 as a manufacturer of Hanafuda, namely the type of card game in Japan. The cards have symbols associated with Yakuza groups, such as the symbol of the mountain, stars, animals, flowers, and so forth. In fact, people said the meaning behind the meaning of the name Nin-Ten-do itself is a preference for the meaning of gmbling .
Interestingly, Nintendo's first headquarters located in Kyoto area and is closely related to Aizukotetsukai, which is one of the oldest and strongest branch Yakuza.
2. Nintendo Ever Manage inn Given Name "Love Hotels"
Nintendo Love HotelsThe main influx of Nintendo when it just came from a card game, but it was apparently not enough after the industry began to grow rapidly. Nintendo began branching out into other industries who may be a little better than before.
Throughout the 1960s, Nintendo once ran an inn called "Love Hotels". After last long enough, Nintendo is finally starting to clean up their image and reputation in the 1980s by removing some of the things related to the inn, such as location, photos, and so forth.
3. Nintendo Fighting Products What Can Find Success Of The Year 1960-1970
Nintendo TaxiIn the 60s Nintendo began to realize that the legality of the company is very important for their business can survive long and have a good image in the public eye. Nintendo began to run a wide variety of unusual business, from creating a vacuum cleaner, instant rice, to produce a TV station .
Still dealing with the Love Hotel they manage, Nintendo actually manage taxi service called "Daiya" . The taxi service is actually quite successful, but in the end had to be closed by the CEO of their own because of a dispute with the driver union-related wage salary.
4. Origins Character Iconic, Mario
Mario character Mario who we now know was originally called "Jumpman". Mario himself his name comes from the owner of the office building of Nintendo in America, whose full name is Mario Segale.
5. Gameboy console Planned For Short-Term Project
Nintendo GameboyGunpei Yokoi is the main figure behind the making of Gameboy, but no less important appreciation should also be given to Satoru Okada keen to see the potential of the Game Boy products. Who would have thought, a project that was initially considered normal was able to gain popularity and tremendous success.
6. Virtual Boy console Dismissed Because Considered Projects Fail (Current Virtual Reality)
Virtual BoyVirtual Boy is made console Nintendo fairly controversial at the time. It is not clear what the purpose of the console is Nintendo's calling as a virtual console as there are several configurations confusing when using the equipment. In addition, many users complain of sore eyes and headaches when using the Virtual Boy.
7. Business Transactions Biggest Competitor
Sony PlaystationNintendo's been working with Sony in terms of making a CD-based console system that may be sold in the market if it succeeds. But unfortunately, the agreement is terminated unilaterally by Nintendo themselves and they even cooperated with Philips CD and ended with losses of up to 1 billion dollars. Sony PlayStation console eventually develops independently. It is then precisely delivering successful console in a new era of a video game that even today makes Nintendo always behind.
8. Nintendo Wii Console Owned Realize That They Will Never Succeed
Nintendo Wii 2006, Nintendo released the Wii console complete with a controller that is quite innovative at the time. But unfortunately, these controllers actually cause problems fairly damning for Nintendo, many report that their console has a design defect before the release, but instead, Nintendo stop selling it they try to cover up the case. Although in the end Nintendo will replace these losses, but the lawsuit continues. It also resulted in Nintendo has to pay a fine before the console finally dismissed in 2010.
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