The Man Who Made Nintendo as We Know It Just Died

Sept 19, 20133:42 PM

Hiroshi Yamauchi ran Nintendo from 1949 until 2002, presiding over its heyday with the rise of the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 1980s.

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