yo si veo a nintendo en cartas de juegos lo que no veo es que vuelva a producir naipes... =( que en paz descanse Nintendo History: 1889 - 1970
1889 - Card Makers Extraordinaire
It was 1889, and a Japanese man named Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai, a Kyoto-based card manufacturer. The cards being made were hanafuda playing cards, each one hand crafted and painted. The hanafuda game consists of 48 cards in 12 suits, and display natural symbols used in gameplay. The cards were sold in Kyoto and Osaka in Yamauchi's own Nintendo stores. Once the card business picked up, Nintendo Koppai hanafuda started changing the symbols, making them quite collectable. When the Yakuza (the Japanese Mafia) surfaced, they began using Nintendo Koppai's hanafuda playing cards in their high-stake gambling games, and Yamauchi fell under pressure to mass-produce the cards. He taught apprentices to help him make them, and Nintendo expanded to accommodate the growing demand.
The popularity of the cards continued well into the 1900s, and the business expanded further in this time. Yamauchi struck deals with other companies in order to sell the cards in stores other than his own. Around this time, Nintendo Koppai also became the first company to produce and successfully market western playing cards in Japan. By 1929 Fusajiro retired and left what had become Japan's largest playing card company to Sekiryo Yamauchi, his son in law.
In 1933, Sekiryo set up a joint partnership company named Yamauchi Nintendo & Co., and in 1947 he set up a separate distribution company for the Western playing cards called Marufuku Co. Ltd.
Two years later Sekiryo retired from his post after 20 years of being in charge. Nintendo was passed on to Hiroshi Yamauchi, Fusajiro's grandson. Sekiryo had been such a popular executive that Hiroshi was not received with praise by Nintendo's employees. He was also reknowned for being arrogant and unpredictable, and so Hiroshi lay down heavy-handed tactics to maintain his position of authority.