Nintendo existed long before its video game home consoles, but in 1983, it made a huge leap with the Famicom in Japan, which later became the NES in North America in 1985. Between home consoles and ...

Today, Nintendo is one of the world’s biggest video game companies, which isn’t bad, seeing as it launched in the 19th century as a playing card manufacturer. Nintendo entered the gaming industry in ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...