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Nintendo's Origins

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Nintendo and the Playing Card Business

The name Nintendo is actually a multiple on Tantras. The kanji characters can be interpreted as leave luck to heaven, and also maybe the entrepreneurial spirit of a new venture. A hundred years earlier in Kyoto, Japan, when one fusagero Yamauchi, who was the head of a cement company at the time in Kyoto,. He saw that there was an opportunity to get out of the cement business, the boring cement business and enter the playing card business.

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