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Nintendo's Origins

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Introduction

Video games are an absolutely enormous industry with a market size of over $100 billion of consumer spend every year. In the early 1980s, the video game industry in the US had some dire straits and nearly evaporated entirely until Nintendo made a huge bet and changed history forever. That is the story we're going to tell today. We're barely leaving it to get to the Super Nintendo.

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