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Sep 19, 2013 · Hiroshi Yamauchi was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, joining the company on 25 April 1949 until stepping down on 24 May 2002, being subsequently succeeded by Satoru Iwata. During his 53-year tenure, Yamauchi transformed Nintendo from a hanafuda card-making company that had been active solely in Japan into a multibillion-dollar video game publisher and global conglomerate. He was the great-grandson of Fusajiro Yamauchi, Nintendo's first president and founder ...
Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内溥; Kyoto, 7 novembre 1927 – Kyoto, 19 settembre 2013) è stato un imprenditore giapponese, presidente della Nintendo dal 1949 al 2002. Indice 1 Biografia
Sep 20, 2013 · Yamauchi, who was president of Nintendo from 1949 to 2002, re-imagined the Kyoto-based firm from a playing-card company to a pioneer in the video game industry. Yamauchi died Thursday at age 85 ...
Apr 16, 2001 · Profile: Hiroshi Yamauchi The Mind Behind the Empire Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo Co., Ltd., has been running the company with an iron hand ever since he took over his grandfather's family business back in 1949. He took the Kyoto-based firm through a fascinating journey spanning over half a century, from hanafuda playing cards and imaginative gadgets to handheld gaming devices and cutting-edge video-game systems. Yamauchi's life-long dedication to Nintendo was rewarded with ...
Sep 19, 2013 · Hiroshi Yamauchi, February 2004 Yamauchi took a different approach with the SNES' successor the N64, however, which was released in 1996 at least partly to distract attention away from the ...
Sep 20, 2013 · TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran Nintendo for more than 50 years and led the Japanese company’s transition from traditional playing-card maker to video game giant, has died. He was 85. Kyoto-based Nintendo said Yamauchi, who was also known for owning the Seattle Mariners major league baseball club, died Thursday of pneumonia at a hospital in central Japan.
Sep 19, 2013 · Hiroshi Yamauchi, the man credited with transforming Nintendo into a multi-billion dollar video game company, has passed away at the age of 85. The gaming company confirmed the news in a statement ...
