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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made a type of playing card

[–] LeTak@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don’t forget the yakuza money laundry made by Nintendo

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

If you dig back enough, literally every Japanese corpo roots go to some usury house or gambling den in Edo period. Or worse, to aristocratic family. Or both.

You could write a story about a samurai and cowboy playing with Nintendo cards and drinking Coke and it would be historically accurate.