Azelover on 15 August 2009
About Nintendo being the first gaming company, that's probably not exactly true but one thing people don't realize.
They've been making games since 1889, just as they are today. Nintendo is an integrated hardware and software company, and when they were founded as a card company in 1889 if you think about it, it's not that different.
They created the hardware, that is they manufactured the cards and created the software, that is the game with its rules on the cards. If you think of Pong as a primitive type of videogame, what was gaming before that? I'd say card play creation and manufacturing was one of those technologies that preceded it.
So technically they've been doing gaming as a company for 120 years.
