1. Shelby Faulkner & Rachael Manasco
Fusajiro Yamauchi
Shelby Faulkner & Rachael Manasco

2. Personal Life Birth: November 22, 1859
Death: January 1940 (exact date is unknown)
Daughter: Tei Yamauchi
Son-in-law: Sekiryo (Kaneda) Yamauchi

3. Professional Life
Hanafuda was his first card game. All of the cards were hand painted.
He opened his first Hanafuda card shop, Nintendo Koppai
Fusajiro Yamauchi purchased this building which became Nintendo's first headuqarters in (picture on right)
With Hanafuda cards in demand Nintendo quickly became the top game company in Japan.
Over the next forty years his small store expanded into a major corporation. There was an expensive library of original card games developed specifically for Nintendo was added then.

4. Interesting Facts
Nintendo – the rough translation of this word means “leave luck to the stars”
Before fame Yamauchi made a fortune selling playing cards and almost lost his entire fortune trying to branch out.
His son-in-law Sekiryo (Kaneda) Yamauchi took on his wife’s last name to in a sense keep Nintendo in the Yamauchi name.

5. The Evolution of Nintendo

6. Original Nintendo Logo

7. First Nintendo Game Console

8. Nintendo Super Famicom

9. Nintendo 64

10. Game Boy to 3DS XL

11. Nintendo Wii

12. Nintendo Wii Mini

13. Resources