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The Story of Nintendo

So around 1979, the story goes that Gunpei was commuting and he saw on the trainJapanese...

So around 1979, the story goes that Gunpei was commuting and he saw on the train
Japanese businessmen playing with Icd calculators

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So around 1979,
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the story goes that Gunpei was commuting
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and he saw on the train Japanese businessmen
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playing with Icd calculators.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
37
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:13
Uploaded
Mar 08, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Entertain Me Productions,Tudor Productions

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Movie Summary

Over 133 years in the making, from humble beginnings manufacturing 'Hanufuda' cards came the world's most recognized video game companies.
At that time you have to remember, - The Story of Nintendo 00:05
At that time you have to remember,
You can have a newspaper, a magazine, a book. - The Story of Nintendo 00:05
You can have a newspaper, a magazine, a book.
If you don't have any of those, - The Story of Nintendo 00:05
If you don't have any of those,
And he notices further down the carriage, - The Story of Nintendo 00:16
And he notices further down the carriage,
And so Gunpei kind of thinks, hang on, - The Story of Nintendo 00:10
And so Gunpei kind of thinks, hang on,
That would be something people could take, - The Story of Nintendo 00:09
That would be something people could take,
Nintendo first entered the kind of handheld gaming world - The Story of Nintendo 00:14
Nintendo first entered the kind of handheld gaming world
Each of them was only preloaded with one game, - The Story of Nintendo 00:09
Each of them was only preloaded with one game,
People liked having a handheld gaming device - The Story of Nintendo 00:06
People liked having a handheld gaming device
The seventies - The Story of Nintendo 00:06
The seventies
People crowded around machines, - The Story of Nintendo 00:07
People crowded around machines,
The eighties came rolling in, - The Story of Nintendo 00:07
The eighties came rolling in,
But with it came many more consoles manufactured - The Story of Nintendo 00:12
But with it came many more consoles manufactured
Before long the market was saturated in off-brand consoles - The Story of Nintendo 00:09
Before long the market was saturated in off-brand consoles
This climate would be known as the video game crash, - The Story of Nintendo 00:08
This climate would be known as the video game crash,
In the eighties, - The Story of Nintendo 00:09
In the eighties,
But then actually there was something - The Story of Nintendo 00:05
But then actually there was something
What had happened was a lot of companies - The Story of Nintendo 00:12
What had happened was a lot of companies
So this led to a crash - The Story of Nintendo 00:08
So this led to a crash
Nintendo introduced a thing called the seal of quality, - The Story of Nintendo 00:15
Nintendo introduced a thing called the seal of quality,