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  2. Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内溥, Yamauchi Hiroshi, 7 November 1927 – 19 September 2013) was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, joining the company on 25 April 1949 until stepping down on 24 May 2002, being subsequently succeeded by Satoru Iwata.

  3. Sep 19, 2013 · Hiroshi Yamauchi, the man who transformed video game giant Nintendo into what it is today from its root as a playing-card company, died Thursday in Kyoto, Japan, from pneumonia. Yamauchi was 85...

  4. Hiroshi Yamauchi (November 7, 1927 - September 19, 2013) was the third president of Nintendo. He served as president for over 50 years and was the third and final member of the Yamauchi family to be president of Nintendo; after his tenure, he was succeeded by Satoru Iwata.

  5. May 25, 2012 · Roughly 30 years into his tenure as Nintendo president, Hiroshi Yamauchi found himself leading an old playing card manufacturer to become the company that would revolutionize the new media of...

  6. Sep 20, 2013 · When Hiroshi Yamauchi dropped out of college in 1948, to replace his grandfather as the president of the Kyoto-based hanafuda playing-card manufacturer Nintendo Koppai, the company, founded in...

  7. Sep 19, 2013 · Named president of the family business at 22, he steered Nintendo into board games, light-emitting toy guns and baseball pitching machines — fruitless forays that he later attributed to a “lack...

  8. Sep 20, 2013 · The death of Hiroshi Yamauchi marks the end of an extraordinary career that spanned 53 years, during which the Nintendo president not only changed a company but left his mark on the very nature...

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