Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Sep 19, 2013 · Sept. 19, 2013. TOKYO — Hiroshi Yamauchi, who transformed his great-grandfather’s playing-card company, Nintendo, into a global video game powerhouse, died on Thursday in Kyoto, Japan. He was...

  2. Hiroshi Yamauchi(JP) (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.

  3. Sep 19, 2013 · Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo's former president, has died aged 85. Under his leadership, the Japanese firm was transformed, between 1949 and 2002, from being a playing card company to one of the...

  4. Sep 20, 2013 · Hiroshi Yamauchi, who died this week at the age of eighty-five, was both the architect and the savior of the video-game industry as we know it today…

  5. Sep 20, 2013 · Yamauchi, who was president of Nintendo from 1949 to 2002, re-imagined the Kyoto-based firm from a playing-card company to a pioneer in the video game industry. Yamauchi died Thursday at age 85.

  6. Sep 19, 2013 · Generations of children have grown up loving Super Mario Bros, Pokémon characters, the Legend of Zelda series and hundreds of other video games without ever hearing the name of Hiroshi...

  7. Sep 19, 2013 · Sep 19, 2013, 3:31 AM PDT. Hiroshi Yamauchi. Hiroshi Yamauchi, the man who transformed Nintendo into a videogame giant, has died at 85. A Nintendo spokesman tells BBC News that the company...

  1. People also search for