Nintendo Facts

Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.

The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, started at Nintendo as an assembly line maintenance worker fixing machines before being discovered by the company president and becoming one of gaming's most influential designers.

Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.

Nintendo has banked so much money, they could run a deficit of over $250 million every year and still survive until 2052.

In 1991, Sony and Nintendo were building a console together. Then Nintendo secretly cut a deal with Philips and announced it the morning after Sony revealed their partnership at CES. Sony engineer Ken Kutaragi pushed to build a console anyway. Sony's president backed him. Nintendo tried to humiliate Sony. Sony answered with PlayStation.