Fun with History

[MuGen]

Sony began in 1945 under Masaru Ibuka in the war-damaged city of Tokyo. In a small, pitiful building a few employees began repairing radios, and brainstorming for new tools people could use. The first new invention to come from the company, then known as Tokyo Tsushin Kenkyujo or Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute, was a rice cooker. From there, over the next several years, the company continued to grow. They made such things as electrically heated cushions and radios. The company changed names and moved several times before finally becoming Sony in January of 1958. By then, they had diversified to make many different electronics such as radios, tvs, and voice recorders. Since then, Sony has grown exponentially diversifying into nearly every aspect of telecommunications industry. This is just a chip off of the block of Sony's history.

I will be posting history about other companies.

[Jonbo298]

*My mistake*

[Canyarion]

Were they postcards? :)

But eh to be on-topic: Hm those Japanese sure know how to grow...

[MuGen]

I actually never knew they started out repairing radios... lol

[GameMaster]

Wally Amos, an Air Force veteran who worked as a talent agent with the Willliam Morris Talent Agency, used to send home-cooked chocolate chip cookies to celebrities as a way to entice them to meet up with him and maybe sign a deal to be represented by the William Morris company.

In 1975, Amos took the advice of some friends and opened a cookie restaurant in Los Angeles, California, the restaurant being named "Famous Amos".

The restaurant proved so popular that eventually, the "Famous Amos" brand would later branch out, starting the production of cookies to be sold at supermarkets almost immediately, in a move that would later be emulated by other specialty restaurants, such as Baskin Robbins, T.G.I. Fridays, Starbucks, etc.

[Stray_Bullet]

Nintendo started in the 1880's...

Good save! Show those bastards who made a history topic in the Playstation thread.

Kyuzo: Despite how it may "appear," this is not directed as an insult to you. But, Jonbo could have told you that.

[Jonbo298]

I didnt see this was in The Station forum. My mistake. I just click new posts and read them and thought this was in the general area or whatever.

I did not intend to insult or offend anyone. I'll just edit out my entire post because it was my fault for not checking the forum first.

[Canyarion]

:confused: It's not as bad as you think...

And your Keibler avatar still scares me... in the picture where she looks at you, she's so ugly. :baby:

[MuGen]

hey hey hey.. no insulting the Heiress of the Kingdom of Long Legs.

In any case.... no fault is in no ones hands. I think one of the moderators could move this thread to a General Area where ALL can post history about various companies.

[Jonbo298]

And your Keibler avatar still scares me... in the picture where she looks at you, she's so ugly. :baby:

Find me a better one :D

[GameMaster]

I think one of the moderators could move this thread to a General Area where ALL can post history about various companies.

Your wish is my command, new friend.

[MuGen]

This year Fusajiro Yamauchi who lived in Kyoto Japan founded Nintendo Koppai to begin producing and selling the special playing cards called "Hanafunda" (a.k.a. "Daitoryo" and "President") in Kyoto (Fusajiro was the great grandfather of the present Nintendo president). All the cards that Fusajiro produced was tenderly hand made using the bark from the mulberry or mitsu-mata trees.
The Hanafunda deck consisted of 48 cards divided in 12 different suits, one for each month of the year. Instead of numbers the cards had different symbols like the wind, a deer, the moon or the chrysanthemum. Different combinations of symbols and suits was worth different many points. The most popular Hanafunda game you could play was a simple matching cards game that could become very complex and was taken very seriously by the players. The cards was sold in Nintendo's own shops in both Kyoto and Osaka but they became most popular in the Kyoto region. In other regions Fusajiro sold other cards with different symbols like swords and mountains. At first the Hanafunda cards was only used as a domestic amusement and Fusajiro didn´t sold any big amounts of the handmade cards but after a while the cards began to be used in gambling and after a while the Yakuza (The Japanese Mafia) began using the Hanafunda cards in their high stake games and since all the professional players wanted to start a new game with a new fresh deck Fusajiro suddenly had problems keeping up with the demands! He had to start training apprentices to massproduce the cards.

1977 Nintendo enters the video game industry and Shigeru Miyamoto starts working at Nintendo!

Nintendo enters the videogame industry when they together with Mitsubishi Electrics releases their first videogame machine, the Color TV Game 6 in Japan. The system was designed to play 6 different versions of light tennis. The system sold in million copies. Shigeru Miyamoto started working at Nintendo as a games designer creating artwork for arcade games.

2006 - Nintendo sells to Microsoft... LOL jk.....