Check out this awesome cosplay from this year at Nipponbashi Street Fasta!
Founder and first president of Nintendo, Fusajiro Yamauchi
Fusajiro Yamauchi, founder and first president of Nintendo from 1889 to 1929. After he retired from president, he gave the position of president to his son-in-lax, Sekiryo Yamauchi, who was president for 2 decades from 1929 to 1949.
Nintendo Gameboy Advance released on this day 15 years ago in Japan
Nintendo’s Gameboy Advanced released on this day, March 21, in 2001, in Japan. The Gameboy Advance. It was later released in the US in June 11. Sold a total of 81.5 million units worldwide and about half of those were sold in the US! The Gameboy Advance was discounted by 2007.
Young Masahiro Sakurai at the age of 29
Super Smash Bros. series creator, Masahiro Sakurai at the age of 29, back when he was working on Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64. Back then, his favorite character was Falcon as he said “he’s the manliest”
Previous President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, with current president
Here is Satoru Iwata with his fellow worker, Tatsumi Kimishima, who is now the current President and CEO of Nintendo.
Nintendo employees from old factory on a hunger strike in 1955
Here is a picture of Nintendo employees on a hunger strike (not eating until their request is fulfilled) to prevent closure of an old Nintendo factory. This took place in Kyoto, in 1955.
Iwata announcing his deal with DeNA almost a year ago
Nintendo finally announced their movement into mobile games nearly a year ago where former President of Nintendo Iwata shared his deal with DeNA and also, the first ever talk from Nintendo of the ‘NX’. This first app from Nintendo will be Miitomo and it in fact will be releasing in two days from (March 17) now in Japan. It should be expected to be released in the west sometime in the coming weeks.
Nintendo Gamecube’s prototype ‘Dolphin’ revealed in 1999
Nintendo first announced the successor to the Nintendo 64 in their E3 show in 1999. The console had the working name of ‘Dolphine’ and looked very much different in the first reveal. With the reveal, Nintendo still wanted to keep the Nintendo 64 living and kept quite about their console code-named ‘Dolphin’ for over a year. Nintendo finally unveiled their next gen console on August 24, 2000 where the official name was given.
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was revealed back in 1997 at E3
Nintendo’s third ever E3 show was a success with the big hitter, the reveal of The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64. The game would soon be shown next year in 1998 in their fourth E3 where the final look of the game was presented.
Did you know?
In 2009, it was said that Shigeru Miyamoto earned about ¥126 million ($1.4 million). That made him the second highest paid at Nintendo.
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