The History of Nintendo

Comprehensive look at the vast history of the multinational company known as Nintendo Co., Ltd. It all started in 1889, when a small based card shop would eventually emerge slowly but greatfully throughout many decades.

With many interesting changes for Nintendo happening, shifting from markets again and again, and learning from mistakes and successes, they kept rising steadily. Personally I already knew a few bits of information before 1980 regarding Nintendo's history, including the hanafuda cards, the first 2 Color TV Game Consoles, some of their toys such as the Ultra Hand and Chiritori and interesting bits of trivia such as investing into Walt Disney, love hotels and a taxy company. 

But The History of Nintendo provided for me, as a dedicated fan, a whole new perspective of historical moments and products to read into. They created so many kinds of cards, many kinds of toys, many kinds of board games, many kinds of electronic toys, a vast amount of card games and even produced miscellaneous stuff such as rice, cane-prams and photocopiers!

Some of the most interesting new stuff I learned in here was amongst other things the Love Tester, the N&B Block, the Laser Clay System, the Shooting Simulations, the Kosenju weapons, the Kosen Denwa LT and the brief insight into Nintendo's most influential president; Hiroshi Yamauchi. There is no doubt for me that any fan of Nintendo's uncountable video games, whatever games they like, should definitely consider learning much more about their large, often forgotten era of emerging.

This is only the first volume of a series of books concentrated around the company. The second volume deals entirely with the Game & Watch games, and it's easy to think where they would go next with the third one.

Rating: ***