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In 1970, Hiroshi Yamauchi, the third president of Nintendo, was observing a Nintendo hanafuda factory. He noticed an extending arm, which was made by one of their maintenance engineers, Gunpei Yokoi, for his own amusement. Yamauchi ordered Yokoi to develop it as a product for the Christmas rush. The Ultra Hand was a huge success, selling approximately 1.2 million units, causing Yokoi to be moved from maintenance duty to product development. Yokoi would later go on to be a part of the creation of the Metroid series, and be involved in the first three games before his death.

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  • In 1970, Hiroshi Yamauchi, the third president of Nintendo, was observing a Nintendo hanafuda factory. He noticed an extending arm, which was made by one of their maintenance engineers, Gunpei Yokoi, for his own amusement. Yamauchi ordered Yokoi to develop it as a product for the Christmas rush. The Ultra Hand was a huge success, selling approximately 1.2 million units, causing Yokoi to be moved from maintenance duty to product development. Yokoi would later go on to be a part of the creation of the Metroid series, and be involved in the first three games before his death.
  • When Yamauchi first became president of Nintendo, the company was a major producer of Hanafuda cards in Japan. Under Yamauchi, Nintendo went into toys and the coin-op business before entering the home consoles market and revitalizing the video game industry in the US. Yamauchi was known for being a ruthless and intimidating leader. Yamauchi was also known in the years of NES and SNES for being able to predict the twists and turns of the video game market, even though he himself only played a video game once in his life and hated it.
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  • In 1970, Hiroshi Yamauchi, the third president of Nintendo, was observing a Nintendo hanafuda factory. He noticed an extending arm, which was made by one of their maintenance engineers, Gunpei Yokoi, for his own amusement. Yamauchi ordered Yokoi to develop it as a product for the Christmas rush. The Ultra Hand was a huge success, selling approximately 1.2 million units, causing Yokoi to be moved from maintenance duty to product development. Yokoi would later go on to be a part of the creation of the Metroid series, and be involved in the first three games before his death. Yamauchi was the executive producer of Super Metroid. His credit was unused, however, for unknown reasons.
  • When Yamauchi first became president of Nintendo, the company was a major producer of Hanafuda cards in Japan. Under Yamauchi, Nintendo went into toys and the coin-op business before entering the home consoles market and revitalizing the video game industry in the US. Yamauchi was known for being a ruthless and intimidating leader. Yamauchi was also known in the years of NES and SNES for being able to predict the twists and turns of the video game market, even though he himself only played a video game once in his life and hated it. Hiroshi Yamauchi stepped down from his position as Nintendo President in May 2002, when he became a Director. He then left the company entirely after a shareholder's meeting on June 29th, 2005, though still chose to keep stock in Nintendo (he was the leading stock holder), leading him to become one of the richest men in Japan due to the success of the Wii and Nintendo DS. He died on September 19, 2013 following complications of pneumonia.
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