Hiroshi Yamauchi Defines the Success of Playstation

Hiroshi Yamauchi Defines the Success of Playstation

Following the Nintendo 64 loss in the console wars to the original Playstation, Nintendo Co. LTD President Hiroshi Yamauchi claimed to know why sales of Sony's first foray into the video game console space was so much more successful than that of Nintendo's third home console. Despite the...
Henk Rodgers Teaches Nintendo How To Sell

Henk Rodgers Teaches Nintendo How To Sell

Prior to the release of the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989, Henk Rodgers was simply a game developer and salesman. A salesman who knew how to get his foot in the door of major developers from whom he wished to acquire rights to titles. One of those developers...
Shigeru Miyamoto Weighs in on Tetris

Shigeru Miyamoto Weighs in on Tetris

In the mid eighties, Tetris was being quietly passed around the video game industry. When it made it's way to Nintendo, Then Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi asked game industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto to try it out. When Yamauchi asked Miyamoto a few days later if Tetris was any...