He said that he and then-Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi were shown “mock-ups of a muscular Pikachu, and advised that only a complete redrawing would make the Pokémon game sell.” ...

In 1983, then Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi famously decided to recall manufactured and released Famicom units that turned out to be defective. At the time, this was a pricey decision for ...

When Ichiro was posted by the Orix Blue Wave in November of 2000, the Mariners — who were owned by the Japanese chairman of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi — were aggressive in their pursuit.

"To tell the truth, when I was asked to help out on the Zelda team, I wasn't too pleased about it," he shares. "I didn't ...

Also helping matters on the Seattle side is that then principal owner Hiroshi Yamauchi, a native of Kyoto, relished the idea of signing Ichiro to be the first Asian non-pitcher in the U.S. majors ...

A former member of Nintendo reveals that the 100th anniversary of the company, surprisingly, wasn't celebrated at the company ...

Former Nintendo artist Takaya Imamura recently revealed, that Nintendo's 100th Anniversary Celebration Never Happened.

It’s a company that never gets carried away.” Imamura attributes this firm corporate culture to the philosophy of Nintendo’s late Hiroshi Yamauchi. Yamauchi was the company’s third CEO, and the ...

Nintendo is known for many things, and one of them is that they don't always make a "big deal" out of what you would expect ...