The REALLY Weird 130 Year History of Nintendo

The REALLY Weird 130 Year History of Nintendo - How History Works

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Жыл бұрын

Nintendo predates video games by a good hundred years, having started learning about game design as a humble card company in 1889.
Even when the fledging company was learning about game design in the playing card business it would be some time before the company settled on video games as its main source of profit.
So what was the journey from Hanafuda cards to Pokémon cards? how did they grow the video game company off the backs of a taxi firm and when did Mario change the game forever? Well it's time to learn How History Works.
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@papanga1197 Жыл бұрын

Here after the stop investing video

@aname4390 Жыл бұрын

Same.

@paulovlobato Жыл бұрын

Same ²

@alcohlolicpastry Жыл бұрын

What they said

@YawMoney Жыл бұрын

Me too

@sebastianleon8575 Жыл бұрын

Double banger

@caynebyron Жыл бұрын

Have you really not ever heard someone say "Kyoto" before?

@jacoblipkestudios7621 2 ай бұрын

This guy is pretty uninformed. He called the Famicom the Famicon and said it debuted in 1985 when it was 1983, 1985 is when the NES debuted in the states.

@ditm02 Жыл бұрын

I learned more about modern global economics in 11 minutes than i did in a semester of college, lol. Nice vid. please keep it up!!

@HowHistoryWorks Жыл бұрын

Why thank you! Glad you liked it

@ditm02 Жыл бұрын

@@HowHistoryWorks Although I've seen, read, and heard much about the history of this company. It's always nice to get that extra little tidbit that learning new things provides. I can dig it, for now.... Pin intended. 🍾👍🥂✌

@JosiahTaschuk Жыл бұрын

Love to see you producing more content!

@HowHistoryWorks Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's a lot of fun, especially when I see ya'll like it!

@JosiahTaschuk Жыл бұрын

@@HowHistoryWorks Wishing you further success with this channel! Gotta support creators! You keep the dream alive for all of us!

@rsv298 Жыл бұрын

@@HowHistoryWorks great work on the videos! Very well researched and presented with no fluff.

@happycoolhayden8767 Жыл бұрын

@@HowHistoryWorks Maybe Nintendo should venture to other hardware and other industries. 10:24 Maybe Nintendo Pictures should compete with Sega, just like back in the 80s, 90s and early 00s with the FC/NES vs the SG-1000, the SC-3000, and the Mark III/SMS, the OG GameBoy vs the Game Gear, the SFC/SNES vs the Mega Drive/Genesis, the N64 vs the Saturn, and the GameCube vs the Dreamcast.

@mage1over137 Жыл бұрын

Gunpei Yokoi died in 1997 not 1987. He left Nintendo after the failure of the virtual boy, but formed his own company inventing Tamagotchi and led the design for the wonder swan.

@jacoblipkestudios7621 2 ай бұрын

Yeah this guy isn’t qualified to make this video.

@SalamanderLights 10 ай бұрын

It's a bit distracting to hear Miyamoto, Yamauchi, and Kyoto mispronounced like this when it's easy to find their proper pronunciations.

@buttpaste 4 ай бұрын

he even got miyamoto's (sur)name right at first, then switched it up to "my-a-moto" amazing

@anonymousbloke1 Ай бұрын

He's the peak American. Monolingual par excellence

@Leonfei Жыл бұрын

This channel seems great so far, been subbed to how money works for some time now, and I'm looking forward to learning more about history on this channel.

@Twisted_Logic Жыл бұрын

Nintendo has a fascinating history as a business. If you're looking for more I highly recommend LowSpec Gamer's video on the development of the Game & Watch

@ricardowilliams3765 Жыл бұрын

Or watch LowSpec Gamer videos in general really.

@Twisted_Logic Жыл бұрын

@@ricardowilliams3765 Trying to offer a gateway drug ;)

@ChocolateMilkCultLeader Жыл бұрын

Glad to see you posting about History too. Look forward to learning from you

@kasdimfer5156 Жыл бұрын

I love how cold and direct you are in telling certain truths, it's good that you expand into history.

@oprescue999 4 ай бұрын

E.T. game cartridges were buried in Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill, not Nevada

@nerdsrow8296 Жыл бұрын

Love history of big businesses, love the info and the style

@joekoa Жыл бұрын

Let's keep this series going!

@HowHistoryWorks Жыл бұрын

Will be doing a history of businesses series

@dmkuznezov4341 Жыл бұрын

Omg how is it only 600 views in two weeks? Brilliant and very underscored.

@aL3891_ Жыл бұрын

Just found out about the channel from your stop investing video and now I'm writing this comment to boost engagement as I've subbed to this one

@HowHistoryWorks Жыл бұрын

Thanks aL!

@realname2566 Жыл бұрын

Definitely plug this channel in hmw once n a while. Solid stuff.

@Zeverinsen Жыл бұрын

In today's corporate climate, where basically every corner of every niche is already covered by some multi million dollar conglomerate, pulling off this feat is nigh impossible. *It's a shame really.*

@weidergonga2997 Жыл бұрын

WOW, the new channel is great

@HowHistoryWorks Жыл бұрын

Thanks you :)

@crown_resident 3 ай бұрын

XBOX, PLAYSTAION, STEAM, VALVE. Thank you soo much for this one!

@shuccle6161 Күн бұрын

oh the irony that Disney let Nintendo put Mickey's face on their playing cards, and now Mario's face is more recognizably than Mickey's

@vid6819 Жыл бұрын

Yamauchi is the family name so of course they are all the same name😂. Their given names would be : Fusajiro, Sekiryo and Hiroshi

@Clery75019 10 ай бұрын

Actually, Sekiryo wasn't Fusajiro's son but his son-in-law. Indeed Fusajiro only had daughters. So the husband of his elder daughter, Sekiryo Kaneda, took the name of his wife to lead the family business. Sekiryo will also have 2 daughters, and the husband of the one inheriting the playing cards business will eventually leave his family. Their kid, Hiroshi will eventually take his mother's name, Yamauchi.

@AlexTamayo. 10 ай бұрын

@@Clery75019 in Japan it's not uncommon for men to take on their father-in-law family name as a way of kind-of adoption. Usually because of big inheritance, the name has more prestige, because the father-in-law has no male heir or a combination of those. My understanding is that Hiroshi was born with the family name Yamauchi.

@Clery75019 10 ай бұрын

@@AlexTamayo. Probably. From what you tell, it would make sense that his father, Shikanojo Inaba, renamed himself Yamauchi when he married Kimi Yamauchi, Sekiryo's daughter. As such, Hiroshi would be named Yamauchi from birth. Hiroshi was 6 years old when his father abandonned his family.

@AlexTamayo. 10 ай бұрын

@@Clery75019 My understanding is that most of the patriarchs of the Yamauchi family weren't born with the Yamauchi family name including Fusajiro, who founded the company. I think Hiorshi was the only man in that family born with the Yamauchi surname. 🤷‍♂

@phunweng962 Жыл бұрын

You pronounce Kyoto --- Kayouto...?

@Brovider Жыл бұрын

Please keep doing video like this cause I'm going to launch a Game Studio

@Udson82 8 ай бұрын

Kaioto?!?!?! 😂

@deannal.newton9772 11 ай бұрын

I'm also aware of the weird history of Nintendo from the show High Score on Netflix I never expected Nintendo to make an entire theme park called Super Nintendo Land or make the Super Mario Bros. Movie and yet here we are. I also want to point out that some of Nintendo's past is incorporated in the video games that they made just to show how everything is incorporated on Nintendo's part. On the bright side, since I saw the Nintendo Direct I can't wait to play Super Mario RPG and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

@maximilianfrancisfrattura2369 10 ай бұрын

Really interesting. However, compared to your how money works there is room for improvement. I felt like there was a lot of information and had a hard time following through everything. Keep up the good work though!

@alpmarangoz Жыл бұрын

I like your content in general and Liked this one too to show support. But this one was difficult to follow for me. Maybe there are too many foreign names to keep track of or too much information packed in. Your investment videos are more structured and lean. Anyway, good luck with the new channel..

@GhostZodick Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I find the Romanized Japanese names hard to follow too. Maybe it would be easier to print their names in it's original writing.

@HowHistoryWorks Жыл бұрын

I appreciate the feedback. I'll figure out how to recalibrate

@cat-sanglasses413 Жыл бұрын

respect to the og entrepreneur

@KingPoe1987 Ай бұрын

I’m sorry, but there’s a lot of inaccuracies in this video. The most glaring is that Yokoi died in 1997 in a car crash. 8 years after the game boy was released

@digitalculturela 9 күн бұрын

Fascinated

@adiicism 11 ай бұрын

Where did you do all this research from ?

@blackhaulmike Жыл бұрын

So which other Works is in works for works media?

@OmDahake Жыл бұрын

You tryna make a company of this like Linus Media Group ?

@HowHistoryWorks Жыл бұрын

Indeed we are :)

@kenapsay7976 Жыл бұрын

You have a new channel? 1 month ago? I didn't made a splash in my feeds. According to MatPat if you start a new channel, upload a lot of videos on the first day. He launched his new channel with 6. But I digress, he has a team behind me (bit equally busy with other projects)

@HowHistoryWorks Жыл бұрын

I started this months ago and wanted to add enough videos so that if you wanted to binge watch you had others to watch too. Good for the algorithm as well

@timothy6314 Жыл бұрын

Commenting here for historical purposes

@wanderingrandomer 10 ай бұрын

A minor correction, but the copies of ET being buried in the desert was the more famous crash of 1983, not the 70s one

@FunGsCollections Жыл бұрын

here for it from how money works

@goldenphonautogram6141 8 ай бұрын

Always remember to fact check

@probablytheamaziiingtim2915 10 ай бұрын

Am i the only who hears 2 narrating voices?

@Jupa Жыл бұрын

oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

@HowHistoryWorks Жыл бұрын

oh ttttttttttttttttt

@jkell018 Жыл бұрын

Segali?!

@wr41thx29 10 ай бұрын

Great video! However, some of your information in this is incorrect. Gunpei Yokoi died in 1997, not 1 year after the release of the game boy in 1989. He actually left Nintendo in 1996 after the failure of the Virtual Boy.

@Tormod29 Жыл бұрын

Ah, I See You're a Man of Culture As Well

@stevenglowacki8576 10 ай бұрын

I highly suggest that you find a good source to learn how to pronounce names that are in languages you aren't a native speaker of.

@kissmyussr1993 Жыл бұрын

And unlike Nintendo, which success was largely based on their luck, this channel is destined to succeed

@Dhadaya1016 Жыл бұрын

Wow it's not like the nes and game boy came out in 2022

@HellDestroyer77 9 ай бұрын

Dude, the horrendous pronunciations of names, and places, in this was painful. Jesus Christ. Lol

@danielhale1 Жыл бұрын

The pikachu love hotels would be weirdly popular with furries here in America. I kinda wish you hadn't put the idea out there, haha. hah.. Oh no.

@HowHistoryWorks Жыл бұрын

If someone starts opening these I'll know who to blame 🤣

@Clery75019 10 ай бұрын

As a matter of fact, the love hotels story isn't documented. Historians couldn't find any evidence of it in Nintendo's historical accountings. So, if the story is real, then the business was directly founded by Hiroshi Yamauchi independently from Nintendo.

@MasterTSayge 9 ай бұрын

You missed the part that Nintendo used to be a brothel back in 1800s. 😅 True Story!

@Brovider Жыл бұрын

Change the name to how Gaming works or do another channel about it

@tonoshikikai 10 ай бұрын

I am enjoying the history but I am only 3 and half minutes in and I feel physically assaulted by these pronunciations.

@chibiusa 8 ай бұрын

All of the butchered Japanese names made watching this very painful. You didn't even get "Kyoto" right.

@RetroJack 4 ай бұрын

This video has so many basic mistakes. Here's a new word for you - research!

@saibadam Жыл бұрын

Can you make a channel called how girls work and how you can get them?

@GuillerMak37 10 ай бұрын

Pretty good video, but your Japanese pronunciations need some work.

@Rebelscum264 Жыл бұрын

The brothels completely glossed over here?

@AlexTamayo. 10 ай бұрын

It wasn't brothels, it was love a hotel (VERY different things) and it was briefly mentioned in the video. 4:20

@kolz4ever1980 7 ай бұрын

Just love nintendo. They constantly make such damn amazing games to buy and even at the end of the switch's life span it's still getting more games to play. Another thing I love about them and hope stays the same for all time is they don't make their system worthless like shit box and more and more with PS by moving all their games to other and better platforms. Literally do not need a shit box for anything since everything is multi platform with games on better platforms than that garbage. Sony is copying the idea of making the system pointless by making their games only timed exclusive. Thankfully nintendo keeps their games where they should only be, on their system. Want the damn game so much? Buy the system or emulate, simple.