Takaya Imamura, the legendary ex-Nintendo dev perhaps best known for his work on the Star Fox franchise, received an early ...

Imamura says that when he joined the company in 1989 — which happens to be the year Nintendo turned 100 — it wasn't really ...

Just when it seemed the Seattle Mariners were heading for St. Petersburg, Fla., Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi headed a group of investors including Howard Lincoln, former chairman of ...

In light of widespread layoffs and a push away from exclusives, past comments from former Nintendo boss Hiroshi Yamauchi have circulated online, highlighting how little has really changed in the ...

Nintendo's playing card business flourished under the leadership of Hiroshi Yamauchi, Fusajiro Yamauchi's grandson, who took over as Nintendo's president in 1949. Nintendo's hanafuda cards were ...

Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi approached Miyamoto for help designing a new game. Miyamoto wasn’t a programmer; he had only ever worked on the artwork for games. Because of this ...

In 1983, then Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi famously decided to recall manufactured and released Famicom units that turned out to be defective. At the time, this was a pricey decision for ...

Each of the four US major sports leagues now has an Asia-born owner, albeit with varying levels of success.