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'''Nintendo''' (任天堂株式会社, ''Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha'') is a video game company originally founded on September 23, 1889.<ref>http://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/outline/index.html</ref> When founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it was a card producer. In 1963, Yamauchi renamed the company from Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd. to just Nintendo Co., Ltd. and began changing industries to such things as a taxi company, a love hotel chain, a TV network, and a food company. About three years after the company name was changed, Nintendo became a video game developer.<ref>http://www.webcitation.org/5vQB0bQ5E</ref> Nintendo are the owners of [[Intelligent Systems]], and the publishers of the [[Fire Emblem (series)|''Fire Emblem'']] series of video games.
 
==Trivia==
* The company name can be translated into English as "leave luck to heaven".
*Nintendo of America is the owner of the [[wikipedia:Seattle Mariners|Seattle Mariners]], a Major League Baseball team.<ref>http://wii.nintendolife.com/companies/nintendo</ref>
 
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