Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran the Nintendo brand for 50 years and brought it from tradition playing card make to a video game giant has died. He was 85 years young. Yamauchi, who owned the Seattle Mariner’s major league baseball team before selling it to Nintendo’s US unit in 2004 died of pneumonia at a hospital in Japan today. He was the president of Nintendo from 1949 – 2002 and was responsible for the company’s growth… Read On »
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