September 23...Nintendo Koppai Company

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 83. This time we examine the year 1889 as the Nintendo Koppai company is founded to sell hanafuda cards, before becoming the gaming giant of Nintendo

 

Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

  

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

 

Sources:

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-probably-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-does-5649625

https://www.lifewire.com/fusajiro-yamauchi-founder-of-nintendo-729584

https://encyclopaediaoftrivia.blogspot.com/2016/09/nintendo.html

https://www.wired.com/2010/09/0923nintendo-founded/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System

Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nintendo#/media/File:Nintendo_1889.jpg