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Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 2 Electronic Beginnings
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! Make sure to check back in everyday for more content! When last we left Nintendo, hanafuda was on it’s way out as toy making was the new profit driver with successes such as The Ultra Hand and the Ultra Machine. Meanw...
Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 1 Origins
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! Make sure to check back in everyday for more content! By now it’s pretty common knowledge that long before Nintendo was in the video game making business, the company got its start producing handmade hanafuda cards i...
Infendo updates, Infendo Radio, and more
Hellooooooooo Infendo! Lots of stuff happening in Infendoland this week so let’s get right to it! If you haven’t heard the news, Infendo is under new ownership, oh hey that’s me! My name is Eugene and I used to contribute to the site a few years back. As you can probably see, the site has undergone some rather significant design changes. What do you all think? Not too shabby for ...
Happy Birthday, old friend. Nintendo turns 125 today
Today is Nintendo’s 125th birthday. Time to celebrate. For many, we know the story of how a small Japanese hanafuda card company rose to prominence during the 1970s and 80s to become the gaming giant it is today. Fans and writers alike have seen the ups and downs the company has gone through, yet its characters and products still somehow resonate with the masses. It surely has been a wild ri...
Reggie: Nintendo is and always will be an entertainment company
Reggie Fils-Aime spoke to the Seattle Times recently and stated that he does not view Nintendo as a “gaming” company, but rather as an entertaining company. “We’ve always been an entertainment company,” he said. Maybe that is why the Nintendo experience always feels so different from that of the competitors. Their focus on the experience to provide us with, not only a great game, but a...
The History of Nintendo, The Musical
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR5DaYuDWYs[/youtube] To celebrate their 400th comic strip, Brawl in the Family creator Matthew Taranto put together a wonderful and well-thought out musical number chronicling the long history of Nintendo as a special gift to his fans. At just under four minutes, Taranto drew, wrote, and sung the entire piece that highlights Nintendo’s humble beginnin...
Club Nintendo Japan…is Why We Should All Move to Japan
Club Nintendo’s been around for a while now. We’ve all (or at least I hope we all) have been punching those first-party game registration codes into the site for years in hopes that someday, some amazing reward will catch our eyes. Don’t get me wrong – there are some great rewards on the U.S. site, but a quick Google search yielding Japan’s Club Nintendo site demonstr...
Happy Birthday Nintendo!
Let us get three cheers for our favorite gaming company, Nintendo! We’ve been with you through the good times. When you made cards, that were exclusive to Japan in the style of Hanafuda. We were there for the slightly awkward times, when you tried to make instant rice and owned some love hotels or something like that… it doesn’t really matter. However, for a lot of us, we were th...
Major Japanese contributions to video games
I wrote an article for GamePro last week in which I documented the major Japanese contributions to video games since the birth of the medium. Here’s a relevant snippet for Infendo Nation: 1889 – Nintendo is formed in late September by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards which are used for several popular Japanese games. Over the years the company will transform into on...
Nintendo still making playing cards?
Well, this is news to me. Anyone have some Nintendo manufactured playing cards? And is the company still making Hanafuda cards?
The History of Nintendo
In case you haven’t already seen this oldie but goody, Gamespot has a nice little profile on Nintendo’s longstanding history in the entertainment business. From the article: “Nintendo has been in existence in one form or another since 1889, making it the oldest company to be involved in the manufacturing of video games. Started in Kyoto, Japan, by Fusajiro Uamauchi, the business ...
Kotaku Posts Tons of Nintendo World Photos
For those of you that have yet to check out the Nintendo World Store in New York City, Kotaku has recently posted a whole bunch of photos of different store goodies, from the Nintendo Van to custom GBA’s and DS’s. My personal favorite is the deck of hanafuda cards under glass that Nintendo used to manufacture before they started creating games. Apparently hanafuda style card-games are ...