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.

References

• {{note|money}} {{Web reference_simple | title=Hiroshi Yamauchi at Forbes.com | URL=http://www.forbes.com/static/bill2005/LIRLZWJ.html?passListId=10&passYear=2005&passListType=Person&uniqueId=LZWJ&datatype=Person | date=July 24 | year=2005}}
• {{note|Kent}} {{Book reference | Author=Kent, Steven L. | Title=The Ultimate History of Video Games | Publisher=Three Rivers Press | Year=2001 | ID=ISBN 0761536434}}