1889: Fusajiro Yamauchi founds Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan, to manufacture hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. Western-style playing cards originally came to Japan in the 16th century with Portuguese traders, but over the ensuing three centuries a variety of different card games were created in Japan. The most popular in the late 1800s were hanafuda, cards […]
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