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a playing-card company that accidentally became the world's most stubborn toy box.
means a japanese video game company that designs its own hardware and software as one inseparable act of mischief.
from founded in 1889 in kyoto by fusajiro yamauchi to make hanafuda playing cards, it drifted through taxis, love hotels, and instant rice before mario saved it in the 1980s.
original businesshandmade japanese playing cards, still sold today
name meaningroughly leave luck to heaven
almost soldlove hotel venture before video games took over
mario's joboriginally a carpenter named jumpman
for instance
super mario bros — 1985 nes launch title, sold over 40 million copies
game boy — 1989 handheld that outlived every rival for a decade
the legend of zelda — 1986 series that invented the open-world adventure template
nintendo switch — 2017 hybrid console, over 140 million units sold