How a Factory Worker Turned Nintendo into a $50 BILLION Empire

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Before Mario http://blog.beforemario.com/ @beforemario

Nintendo Entertainment System courtesy of Quiet Nerd @Quiet Nerd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLCx75iQtGA

Duck Hunt game courtesy of Project Detonado @Project Detonado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxss1EPm6fQ

Ten Billion Barrel puzzle courtesy of Manqube Manish Rathod @Manqube Manish Rathod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moie7RGBJnk&t=274s

Game Boy video courtesy of Alberto Gil Tesa @Alberto Gil Tesa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaCZz_Be4e8

Nintendo Toys “R” Us poster courtesy of Vintage Computing and Gaming http://www.vintagecomputing.com/

Game & Watch courtesy of RG Geek @RG Geek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PquKLxI8Zno (Creative commons attribution - re-use allowed)

Additional sources:
0:12 Nintendo building: Yrwg, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
0:16 Nintendo building plate: Taken in Kyoto, Japan, May 1st, 2006, by Eckhard Pecher. User: Arcimboldo Attribution 2.5 Generic (CC BY 2.5) via Wikimedia Commons
1:03 Justin Doub Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/w8EeHX
5:00 Sharp calculator: Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
5:27 Nintendo headquarters: DVMG, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
5:32 Game & Watch console: Artistosteles, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
6:03 taylorhatmaker, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
7:31 Nintendo gameplay by DarkX2 - Nintendo Gameplays on YouTube. Check out the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB8jy6wl70I&t=31s (Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
10:04 User: Malcohol via Wikimedia Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WonderSwan.jpg
10:26 Puchi-masashi, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Articles referenced:
1:50 Game Over by David Sheff https://www.amazon.com/Game-Teach-Yourself-David-Sheff/dp/0340599820/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=