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Technology Research Paper The Nintendo is a truly fascinating system. With a lot of history you may not have heard of, and with the Nintendo coming very far in the gaming world with the system’s and company’s progression as well as the systems after it, it is a very cool system altogether that I enjoy thoroughly. Nintendo was not always the sweet gaming company of today; it was originally the Marufuku Company, founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi, and they made paper playing cards, believe it or not, called Hanafuda cards. The Marufuku Company had originally made these cards for Russian prisoners during the Russian-Japan war of 1904 to 1905. After this, they started exporting these cards to Japanese towns in South America, Korea, and Australia. This …show more content…

In 1951, the company changed the name to Nintendo, which, in Japan, has a proverbial meaning which is "You work hard but, in the end, it's in heaven's hands." Later, since there was a shortage in the paper they used for the cards, they switched to using plastic for their cards instead. Business was booming, and Nintendo started mass producing their cards; they even made an agreement with Disney to release playing cards with Disney characters on them. Nintendo wanted to expand their business, so later a new game plant was built in Uji city, a suburb in Kyoto, Japan. They were so popular that they even started making board games as well as playing cards. Then, they started creating laser-projection games, like a laser clay pigeon shooting system. After this, in 1978, Nintendo came up with coin-operated games using microcomputers. Later, in the 1980’s, Nintendo started selling the Game and Watch system, which was made of liquid crystals and digital quarts micro hardware. Through this time period, Nintendo focused on the development and marketing of home video technology. Since they were so popular, Nintendo decided to expand into America. This led to the Famicom (short for family computer) which was found in all of at least 35 percent of homes in …show more content…

After the NES, there was the Game Boy, which came out in 1989, which is Nintendo's second-highest selling console. Then, in 1990, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES, came out and sold 49.1 million systems. Then came the Virtual Boy in 1995, the Nintendo 64, or N64, in 1996, and the GameCube in 2001. With even more systems came the Nintendo DS in 2004, the Wii in 2006, the Wii U in 2012, and after a few other systems including, the 2DS, the 3DS, and the 3DS XL, came the most current system, the Switch, which was presented to the world in 2017, and has many redone games because the graphics are pretty realistic. And this is how far the NES has come over the

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