
Kyoto, 1889: a small company starts out in hanafuda playing cards and therefore sells games long before the invention of the video game. Nintendo got into it in the 1970s, but everything changed in 1981 with an arcade cabinet designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, in which a little guy named Jumpman dodges a gorilla's barrels to rescue his sweetheart: Donkey Kong was a huge hit, and Jumpman would become Mario! The Famicom of 1983, renamed the NES in the West, brought the Kyoto company into living rooms all over the world, then Gunpei Yokoi's Game Boy, with its monochrome screen and four AA batteries, slipped those worlds into a pocket in 1989. Each machine then imposed its own way of playing, up to the hybrid Switch of 2017, which goes from the TV to handheld mode without losing anything along the way. And from the hanafuda card to the plush, the Japanese company has in the end never stopped selling games to hold in your hands!
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