One big moment happened in 1959 when they were licensed to start printing cards with Disney characters on them. These old cards were first printed on bark – if you can believe that – and they started making them out of plastic in 1953. (check out my blog on the full history of Nintendo)
It’s the reason you see the use of flower power and fireballs in Super Mario as they come from these old card games.
The trading cards they created were called “ Hanafuda” which meant “flower cards” and there were a number of games you could play with them. It started out as a playing card company in Kyoto, Japan. Now obviously Nintendo isn’t making video games in 1889 but it’s when the company was created. Nintendo, as a company, predates Popeye by another three decades… We’ll start with the oldest one Popeye was created in 1929 so that seems to be where to start. Let’s look at how all of this came together and how Popeye led to Super Mario, and that means going back to the story of both of the. Super Mario Bros is the #1 selling game of all time by far and it propelled the NES into a new era of video games after the great video game crash of 1983. If Popeye had never been created we would not have had Mario and the original NES might not have had the success it did. It’s amazing how one incident can completely change the trajectory for a company and an industry. Popeye the Sailor Man would be the influence behind the Donkey Kong arcade game which would introduce us to Mario and propel Super Mario Bros., and Nintendo to worldwide success. How did a last second creation change the future of video games forever?
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