Good bye Mr Nintendo, RIP

[carmel_andrews]

Linky only

 

 

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/nintendo-pioneer-yamauchi-dies-123241620.html#ktQuXV4

 

One of the true icons of videogames is no longer with us

 

He obviously had the vision, in hiring Gumpei Yokoi to get nintendo into the electronic gaming market, which enabled them to invest in videogames and also gaming hardware

 

He onbiously had a bit of luck go his way, since the proposed deal with Atari which fell apart (mostly due to Kassars departure) was actually a blessing in disguise, as it gave nintendo the chance to sell upscale games technology to the US

 

Only thing is, I woldn't say that nintendo 'revived 'the market after the 80's games crash, perhaps in the US yes but not in europe since certain nintendo policies actually worked against them

 

At least Yamauchi didn't make the same horendous mistakes as his sega or microsoft counterparts have

 

 

Something i found out about concerning nintendo's first non Japanese investment (Rare), the Stampers were the first people to reverse engineer the NES (though they didn't fully reverse engineer it, but they got very close), I guess Nintendo only bought into rare, or got them onboard as 'prefered developers'', so as to stopping them selling their reverse engineered concepts to 3rd parties

Edited September 19, 2013 by carmel_andrews

[DaytonaUSA]

The company had flounder because of smartphones and tablets? What?

 

Anywho enough about the article. Very sad news. At least he led a good life and always seemed to be a nice guy.

Edited September 19, 2013 by DaytonaUSA

[toptenmaterial]

Really good read about the "early" Nintendo days here:

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Over_(book)

 

The cover makes it seem sensational but really it's about how Yamauchi transitioned over to video games and how NOA captured the American market. It also talks a lot about Gumpei!!