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Nintendo's Origins | Acquired Podcast

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Nintendo’s company history and business strategy.

www.acquired.fm

Nintendo: The Console Wars | Acquired Podcast

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Nintendo’s current business strategy.

www.acquired.fm

The Complete History & Strategy of Nintendo​

You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn’t they buy the Seattle Mariners at some point? We thought we knew it too. And then we started researching and were blown away.

The lovable Disney-like Nintendo that we know today is a 130 year-old a playing card company (i.e. gambling), forged in the shadowy world of the Yakuza and shaped by a four-generation cycle of bitter family betrayal. And its unlikely transformation into a global multi-billion dollar media monopoly was led by an iron-fisted patriarch who — amazingly — never played a video game in his life! Get ready for one of our favorite stories Acquired has ever told — we couldn’t make this one up if we tried.

If you like Nintendo or maybe history of companies. Here is 6 hours of Nintendo history talk.

 

[EviLore]

Moved to Gaming.

 

[AJUMP23]

Moved to Gaming.

Makes sense. Thanks random unverified twitter user.