Crazy! Taxi?
It’s well documented that Nintendo, despite being one of the world’s leading creators of video games, didn’t start out in the field. The company was founded 1889 to create playing cards, and over the course of the next few decades would try its hand at several other markets – including toys, ‘love hotels’ and even instant rice.
These projects were the brainchild of Hiroshi Yamauchi, the man who would eventually steer the company towards interactive entertainment. A wily negotiator and visionary businessman, Yamauchi’s instinct would prove instrumental in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, but in his younger years, he was clearly keen to try as many ideas as possible to see which one would stick.
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