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- Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the company Nintendo
- Nintendo has sold more than 2.7 billion video games so far
- It has also sold more than 460 million hardware units
- Original name of Nintendo was Nintendo Koppai
- Nintendo entered the video game industry with Computer Othello
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Nintendo (Nintendo Company Ltd.) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded in 1889 to produce handmade hanafuda playing cards. In the last century the company tried several other fields such as love hotel and taxi service. However, in course of time it has become a video game company. Nintendo is one of the most powerful in the video game industry today. It is also the third most valuable listed company in Japan with a market capital of more than $85 billion. In 2007 it was ranked 10th on the list of largest software companies in the world. Now Nintendo is the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, Major League Baseball team in Seattle, Washington.
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