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The Acquired Podcast Hosts: How They Started and Grew a Multimillion Dollar Podcast
My First Million
The History of Nintendo
Nintendos original business was making hanafuda cards which is the japanese version of us playing cards. Their distribution channel was through the yakuza to illegal casinos Yeah, yakuza being like the mafia the j Japanese mafia. They started making these playing cards in a very small part of the market but just like everywhere else in the world the market is casinos because you use a fresh deck for each hand so that there's no cheating. And yeah, so nintendo was like deeply embedded with the yakuZA and for like three decades they were working on this new game called "Super Mario Bros."
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