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Ok, so Hiroshi Yamuahci can't quite be described as 'As famous as Miyamoto', and he isn't the household name that Shigsy is, but if there's any man that should be given the title Mr. Nintendo, then Hiroshi Yamuachi is that man.
President of Nintendo Entertainment for an astounding 52 years, Hiroshi Yamuachi was the longest running employee of Nintendo ever besides his own great-grandfather, and that's probably a record that his great-grandfather is likely to hold for a long time. Yamauchi was the man that put Nintendo where they are now. On top of the gaming world. He transformed them from a small playing card developing company to the computer games giant that they have been for nearly 20 years now.
The Yamauchi family have always been with Nintendo. The actual Nintendo company was started by Hiroshi's great-grandfather, Fusajiro Yamauchi, who lasted 61 years at the helm of Nintendo. He was the man that used the idea of developing collectable playing cards (which were originally designed for importation to Europe and America) that did well in Japan. Fusajiro Yamuachi retired at the helm of Nintendo at very old age, and handed it over to his young great-grandson, Hiroshi, and he's where Nintendo really began.
Hiroshi became the first man that successfully created plastic cards in mass numbers that actually did well. About 20 years after his success with the playing cards, Yamuachi went for a new and ambitious idea - to bring electrical toys out for the first time. If his new 'plan' worked out, the Japanese toy market would be the first to have elctrical toys in it. The plan did work, and Yamuachi decided to try and move on to even greater things - he teamed up with Mitsibushi to make the first games system to be used at home. In 1977 he developed home-use video games with his partners Mitsibushi. Nintendo were becoming the great company that you are now.
In 1981 Hiroshi developed and began distribution of the coin-operated video game "Donkey Kong." This video game quickly became the best selling individual coin-operated machine in the business. This Donkey Kong game is the one we know from our Game Boys. Nintendo soon began work on more hom-use consoles, and the first successful one, the NES, was release in 1985 and became one of the biggest selling items in Japan. It featured games such as Mario and Luigi Brothers and Duck Hunt. In 1987 the NES became the best selling toy in America, "The Adventure of Link" became the best selling game 2 years later. Hiroshi decided that more consoles such as this would be needed for Nintendo, and they would have to be more upgraded.
In 1991 the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) was released in America and Japan, and it's sales doubled those of the NES's 4 years previously. The SNES was released in the UK also, and games such as Mario Paint, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Mario Brothers, Starfox and Super Metroid helped it be a top seller over here too. The best selling game on the SNES though was Donkey Kong Counrty, developed by Rareware. The series of Donkey Kong Counrty games was the most successful series of games in history at that time. The success of DKC brought the next series of Donkey Kong games, Donkey Kong Land to our Game Boys, and it was an immediate success too. By this time Hiroshi Yamuachi was becoming very rich, as were Nintendo, and other companies were starting to produce games consoles also.
Yamauchi was still the president of Nintendo when work began on the Ultra 64, which was re-named N64, and he steered it through all troubles, such as the release of the Playstation. The Playstation outsold the N64, but Yamauchi realeased the Game Boy Pocket and the Game Boy Colour so that Nintendo wouldn't lose out to Sony, and thankfully, they didn't.
When GC was halfway through development, Yamuahci insisted that if the GC didn't do well at E3, he would have to can the whole project. But the GC has made it out, and Yamauchi has also retired, making the GC the last console the charismatic President of Nintendo worked on.
During his career at head of Nintendo, Yamauchi has made us all laugh, made us feel scared and made us all happy with his comments, threats and consoles. He poked fun at the X-Box by saying 'It's quite the personal computer,' and his threats to can GC, along with his dislike for Squaresoft are the reasons that we've all come to admire Yamauchi. He might not quite be the name that Shigeru Miyamoto is, but he definetly is Mr. Nintendo. Goodbye Mr. Yamauchi, you will be missed.
AJ.
President of Nintendo Entertainment for an astounding 52 years, Hiroshi Yamuachi was the longest running employee of Nintendo ever besides his own great-grandfather, and that's probably a record that his great-grandfather is likely to hold for a long time. Yamauchi was the man that put Nintendo where they are now. On top of the gaming world. He transformed them from a small playing card developing company to the computer games giant that they have been for nearly 20 years now.
The Yamauchi family have always been with Nintendo. The actual Nintendo company was started by Hiroshi's great-grandfather, Fusajiro Yamauchi, who lasted 61 years at the helm of Nintendo. He was the man that used the idea of developing collectable playing cards (which were originally designed for importation to Europe and America) that did well in Japan. Fusajiro Yamuachi retired at the helm of Nintendo at very old age, and handed it over to his young great-grandson, Hiroshi, and he's where Nintendo really began.
Hiroshi became the first man that successfully created plastic cards in mass numbers that actually did well. About 20 years after his success with the playing cards, Yamuachi went for a new and ambitious idea - to bring electrical toys out for the first time. If his new 'plan' worked out, the Japanese toy market would be the first to have elctrical toys in it. The plan did work, and Yamuachi decided to try and move on to even greater things - he teamed up with Mitsibushi to make the first games system to be used at home. In 1977 he developed home-use video games with his partners Mitsibushi. Nintendo were becoming the great company that you are now.
In 1981 Hiroshi developed and began distribution of the coin-operated video game "Donkey Kong." This video game quickly became the best selling individual coin-operated machine in the business. This Donkey Kong game is the one we know from our Game Boys. Nintendo soon began work on more hom-use consoles, and the first successful one, the NES, was release in 1985 and became one of the biggest selling items in Japan. It featured games such as Mario and Luigi Brothers and Duck Hunt. In 1987 the NES became the best selling toy in America, "The Adventure of Link" became the best selling game 2 years later. Hiroshi decided that more consoles such as this would be needed for Nintendo, and they would have to be more upgraded.
In 1991 the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) was released in America and Japan, and it's sales doubled those of the NES's 4 years previously. The SNES was released in the UK also, and games such as Mario Paint, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Mario Brothers, Starfox and Super Metroid helped it be a top seller over here too. The best selling game on the SNES though was Donkey Kong Counrty, developed by Rareware. The series of Donkey Kong Counrty games was the most successful series of games in history at that time. The success of DKC brought the next series of Donkey Kong games, Donkey Kong Land to our Game Boys, and it was an immediate success too. By this time Hiroshi Yamuachi was becoming very rich, as were Nintendo, and other companies were starting to produce games consoles also.
Yamauchi was still the president of Nintendo when work began on the Ultra 64, which was re-named N64, and he steered it through all troubles, such as the release of the Playstation. The Playstation outsold the N64, but Yamauchi realeased the Game Boy Pocket and the Game Boy Colour so that Nintendo wouldn't lose out to Sony, and thankfully, they didn't.
When GC was halfway through development, Yamuahci insisted that if the GC didn't do well at E3, he would have to can the whole project. But the GC has made it out, and Yamauchi has also retired, making the GC the last console the charismatic President of Nintendo worked on.
During his career at head of Nintendo, Yamauchi has made us all laugh, made us feel scared and made us all happy with his comments, threats and consoles. He poked fun at the X-Box by saying 'It's quite the personal computer,' and his threats to can GC, along with his dislike for Squaresoft are the reasons that we've all come to admire Yamauchi. He might not quite be the name that Shigeru Miyamoto is, but he definetly is Mr. Nintendo. Goodbye Mr. Yamauchi, you will be missed.
AJ.
Boss Pac-Man wrote:
> dont forget gunepi yoko, the creator of the gameboy. he died in a car
> crash. dam sony secret agents.
Yoko-san was far ahead of his time. Although he will always be remembered as the man who ran the Virtual Boy project, the actual oncept was revolutionary- a fully 3D portable games machine. Shame the technology didn't exist to support the idea.
More so, this man was the director of Metroid! Such a great game equalled the achievements of Miyamoto-san at the time- you can only wonder what he'd have done with 3D graphics.
> dont forget gunepi yoko, the creator of the gameboy. he died in a car
> crash. dam sony secret agents.
Yoko-san was far ahead of his time. Although he will always be remembered as the man who ran the Virtual Boy project, the actual oncept was revolutionary- a fully 3D portable games machine. Shame the technology didn't exist to support the idea.
More so, this man was the director of Metroid! Such a great game equalled the achievements of Miyamoto-san at the time- you can only wonder what he'd have done with 3D graphics.
cookie monster wrote:
> You also forgot to mension that Yamauchi has red beaming eyes and
> drinks the blood of virgins.
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I was also going to say that he had leathery skin, but decided to leave it out.
:-)
> You also forgot to mension that Yamauchi has red beaming eyes and
> drinks the blood of virgins.
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I was also going to say that he had leathery skin, but decided to leave it out.
:-)
You also forgot to mension that Yamauchi has red beaming eyes and drinks the blood of virgins.
He wasn't all that good y'know.
He's the one who thinks we Europeans are inferior to him and the Japanese.
He's the one who didn't bother about the fact that us Europeans didn't get our games until about a year after they did.
It's better now, of course, because he's no longer with us. But it's also due to the fact that the GC is easier to develop for, so maybe converting games to PAL is easier.
He's the one who thinks we Europeans are inferior to him and the Japanese.
He's the one who didn't bother about the fact that us Europeans didn't get our games until about a year after they did.
It's better now, of course, because he's no longer with us. But it's also due to the fact that the GC is easier to develop for, so maybe converting games to PAL is easier.
dont forget gunepi yoko, the creator of the gameboy. he died in a car crash. dam sony secret agents.
excellent post aj. i did something similar at www.geocities.com/thestateofplay/yamauchi.html. let me know what you think...
You know too much! :P
But he's certainly helped work the wonders for Nintendo!
Imagine what 'trash' we'd be playing if he was never handed the company down from his great granpappy.... :S
I doubt that this new guy Satoru Iwata will be able to have an effect as great as the one Yamauchi has had on the Nintendo.
Although, I read in NGC about some interesting ideas he has, and how the future still looks better than ever for us! :D
I doubt that this will mean the end of Nintendo. :)
But if Shigsy left.... :`(
But he's certainly helped work the wonders for Nintendo!
Imagine what 'trash' we'd be playing if he was never handed the company down from his great granpappy.... :S
I doubt that this new guy Satoru Iwata will be able to have an effect as great as the one Yamauchi has had on the Nintendo.
Although, I read in NGC about some interesting ideas he has, and how the future still looks better than ever for us! :D
I doubt that this will mean the end of Nintendo. :)
But if Shigsy left.... :`(
Ok, so Hiroshi Yamuahci can't quite be described as 'As famous as Miyamoto', and he isn't the household name that Shigsy is, but if there's any man that should be given the title Mr. Nintendo, then Hiroshi Yamuachi is that man.
President of Nintendo Entertainment for an astounding 52 years, Hiroshi Yamuachi was the longest running employee of Nintendo ever besides his own great-grandfather, and that's probably a record that his great-grandfather is likely to hold for a long time. Yamauchi was the man that put Nintendo where they are now. On top of the gaming world. He transformed them from a small playing card developing company to the computer games giant that they have been for nearly 20 years now.
The Yamauchi family have always been with Nintendo. The actual Nintendo company was started by Hiroshi's great-grandfather, Fusajiro Yamauchi, who lasted 61 years at the helm of Nintendo. He was the man that used the idea of developing collectable playing cards (which were originally designed for importation to Europe and America) that did well in Japan. Fusajiro Yamuachi retired at the helm of Nintendo at very old age, and handed it over to his young great-grandson, Hiroshi, and he's where Nintendo really began.
Hiroshi became the first man that successfully created plastic cards in mass numbers that actually did well. About 20 years after his success with the playing cards, Yamuachi went for a new and ambitious idea - to bring electrical toys out for the first time. If his new 'plan' worked out, the Japanese toy market would be the first to have elctrical toys in it. The plan did work, and Yamuachi decided to try and move on to even greater things - he teamed up with Mitsibushi to make the first games system to be used at home. In 1977 he developed home-use video games with his partners Mitsibushi. Nintendo were becoming the great company that you are now.
In 1981 Hiroshi developed and began distribution of the coin-operated video game "Donkey Kong." This video game quickly became the best selling individual coin-operated machine in the business. This Donkey Kong game is the one we know from our Game Boys. Nintendo soon began work on more hom-use consoles, and the first successful one, the NES, was release in 1985 and became one of the biggest selling items in Japan. It featured games such as Mario and Luigi Brothers and Duck Hunt. In 1987 the NES became the best selling toy in America, "The Adventure of Link" became the best selling game 2 years later. Hiroshi decided that more consoles such as this would be needed for Nintendo, and they would have to be more upgraded.
In 1991 the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) was released in America and Japan, and it's sales doubled those of the NES's 4 years previously. The SNES was released in the UK also, and games such as Mario Paint, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Mario Brothers, Starfox and Super Metroid helped it be a top seller over here too. The best selling game on the SNES though was Donkey Kong Counrty, developed by Rareware. The series of Donkey Kong Counrty games was the most successful series of games in history at that time. The success of DKC brought the next series of Donkey Kong games, Donkey Kong Land to our Game Boys, and it was an immediate success too. By this time Hiroshi Yamuachi was becoming very rich, as were Nintendo, and other companies were starting to produce games consoles also.
Yamauchi was still the president of Nintendo when work began on the Ultra 64, which was re-named N64, and he steered it through all troubles, such as the release of the Playstation. The Playstation outsold the N64, but Yamauchi realeased the Game Boy Pocket and the Game Boy Colour so that Nintendo wouldn't lose out to Sony, and thankfully, they didn't.
When GC was halfway through development, Yamuahci insisted that if the GC didn't do well at E3, he would have to can the whole project. But the GC has made it out, and Yamauchi has also retired, making the GC the last console the charismatic President of Nintendo worked on.
During his career at head of Nintendo, Yamauchi has made us all laugh, made us feel scared and made us all happy with his comments, threats and consoles. He poked fun at the X-Box by saying 'It's quite the personal computer,' and his threats to can GC, along with his dislike for Squaresoft are the reasons that we've all come to admire Yamauchi. He might not quite be the name that Shigeru Miyamoto is, but he definetly is Mr. Nintendo. Goodbye Mr. Yamauchi, you will be missed.
AJ.
President of Nintendo Entertainment for an astounding 52 years, Hiroshi Yamuachi was the longest running employee of Nintendo ever besides his own great-grandfather, and that's probably a record that his great-grandfather is likely to hold for a long time. Yamauchi was the man that put Nintendo where they are now. On top of the gaming world. He transformed them from a small playing card developing company to the computer games giant that they have been for nearly 20 years now.
The Yamauchi family have always been with Nintendo. The actual Nintendo company was started by Hiroshi's great-grandfather, Fusajiro Yamauchi, who lasted 61 years at the helm of Nintendo. He was the man that used the idea of developing collectable playing cards (which were originally designed for importation to Europe and America) that did well in Japan. Fusajiro Yamuachi retired at the helm of Nintendo at very old age, and handed it over to his young great-grandson, Hiroshi, and he's where Nintendo really began.
Hiroshi became the first man that successfully created plastic cards in mass numbers that actually did well. About 20 years after his success with the playing cards, Yamuachi went for a new and ambitious idea - to bring electrical toys out for the first time. If his new 'plan' worked out, the Japanese toy market would be the first to have elctrical toys in it. The plan did work, and Yamuachi decided to try and move on to even greater things - he teamed up with Mitsibushi to make the first games system to be used at home. In 1977 he developed home-use video games with his partners Mitsibushi. Nintendo were becoming the great company that you are now.
In 1981 Hiroshi developed and began distribution of the coin-operated video game "Donkey Kong." This video game quickly became the best selling individual coin-operated machine in the business. This Donkey Kong game is the one we know from our Game Boys. Nintendo soon began work on more hom-use consoles, and the first successful one, the NES, was release in 1985 and became one of the biggest selling items in Japan. It featured games such as Mario and Luigi Brothers and Duck Hunt. In 1987 the NES became the best selling toy in America, "The Adventure of Link" became the best selling game 2 years later. Hiroshi decided that more consoles such as this would be needed for Nintendo, and they would have to be more upgraded.
In 1991 the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) was released in America and Japan, and it's sales doubled those of the NES's 4 years previously. The SNES was released in the UK also, and games such as Mario Paint, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Mario Brothers, Starfox and Super Metroid helped it be a top seller over here too. The best selling game on the SNES though was Donkey Kong Counrty, developed by Rareware. The series of Donkey Kong Counrty games was the most successful series of games in history at that time. The success of DKC brought the next series of Donkey Kong games, Donkey Kong Land to our Game Boys, and it was an immediate success too. By this time Hiroshi Yamuachi was becoming very rich, as were Nintendo, and other companies were starting to produce games consoles also.
Yamauchi was still the president of Nintendo when work began on the Ultra 64, which was re-named N64, and he steered it through all troubles, such as the release of the Playstation. The Playstation outsold the N64, but Yamauchi realeased the Game Boy Pocket and the Game Boy Colour so that Nintendo wouldn't lose out to Sony, and thankfully, they didn't.
When GC was halfway through development, Yamuahci insisted that if the GC didn't do well at E3, he would have to can the whole project. But the GC has made it out, and Yamauchi has also retired, making the GC the last console the charismatic President of Nintendo worked on.
During his career at head of Nintendo, Yamauchi has made us all laugh, made us feel scared and made us all happy with his comments, threats and consoles. He poked fun at the X-Box by saying 'It's quite the personal computer,' and his threats to can GC, along with his dislike for Squaresoft are the reasons that we've all come to admire Yamauchi. He might not quite be the name that Shigeru Miyamoto is, but he definetly is Mr. Nintendo. Goodbye Mr. Yamauchi, you will be missed.
AJ.