Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company by Fusajiro Yamauchi. Originally based in the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto, the business sold handmade Hanafuda cards. The cards were ...

Spread across three main buildings, the Nintendo Museum leads visitors through ... The mammoth video game company was first founded in 1889 as a playing cards manufacturer that produced hanafuda, ...

But since its founding in 1889, Nintendo’s century old history has begun to pile up. Perhaps sensing its own age, the idea came to turn an old Nintendo factory into its first ever museum.

Nintendo announces a brand-new gaming-themed device that isn't the one that players have been waiting to hear more about for ...

In 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi started designing playing cards in Kyoto. Over the next 135 years, this business would evolve into ...

Nintendo is a Japanese video game company that originated in Kyoto. In 1889, the company began developing and designing ...

If you do make it, though, you’ll be greeted with an experience that explores more than a century of the company’s history, dating back to 1889 when Nintendo got its start making hanafuda cards.

Located in Uji near the company's Kyoto headquarters, the museum underscores the many evolutions of Nintendo, which was founded in 1889 as a maker of "hanafuda" playing cards and is now a global ...

The Nintendo Museum opened today in the company’s hometown of Kyoto, and it is already limiting some gift shop items to one per person in an attempt to discourage visitors from flipping ...