Hiroshi Yamauchi

Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内 溥 Yamauchi Hiroshi, born November 7, 1927) was the third president of Nintendo beginning in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card making company in Japan to the multi-billion dollar video game company that it is today. Yamauchi was succeeded at Nintendo by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi also became the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team in 1992, which is now managed by former Nintendo of America chairman, Howard Lincoln.

External links

• IGN's report on Yamauchi's leaving of the board of directors
• N-Sider.com's article on The Mind Behind the Empire
• IGN's summary of the Hiroshi Yamauchi interview at Nikkei Business Daily
• ClassicGaming.com - Hiroshi Yamauchi Retires From Nintendo
• Hiroshi Yamauchi On Nintendo's Future from 1UP on FindArticles.com
• Biography of Hiroshi Yamauchi at Nintendo Land
• Forbes Faces: Hiroshi Yamauchi
• Parody: Miyamoto vs Yamauchi
• Reprint of the Hiroshi Yamauchi Wired Interview that was confirmed to be a hoax
• That same article translated into French and back into English with Wired Magazine scans