Post by Mod City on Sept 19, 2013 11:52:05 GMT -5
Highly-influential in Nintendo's rise to power in the video game world. If you played any Nintendo machines in the 80s, 90s or early 2000s you were playing a product of his vision.
As the article states:
"During his tenure as president from 1949 to 2002, Hiroshi Yamauchi, a scion of Nintendo’s founding family, transformed the Kyoto, Japan, company into a force that shaped the world’s videogame industry."
blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/09/19/former-nintendo-president-who-built-gaming-empire-dies/
also:
www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/business/global/hiroshi-yamauchi-who-helped-drive-nintendo-into-dominance-dies-at-85.html?_r=1&
Game on, sir.
As the article states:
"During his tenure as president from 1949 to 2002, Hiroshi Yamauchi, a scion of Nintendo’s founding family, transformed the Kyoto, Japan, company into a force that shaped the world’s videogame industry."
blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/09/19/former-nintendo-president-who-built-gaming-empire-dies/
also:
www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/business/global/hiroshi-yamauchi-who-helped-drive-nintendo-into-dominance-dies-at-85.html?_r=1&
Game on, sir.
