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  • Nintendo hasn't always been a video game company. 1 / 8

  • Before entering into the video game industry, Nintendo did a variety of different things. 2 / 8

  • It started in 1889 as a hanafuda card manufacturer . 3 / 8

  • It eventually moved into love hotel industry and the food market. Both were failures. 4 / 8

  • Nintendo also owned a taxi company before abandoning it in the 1960s. 5 / 8

  • In the late 1960s Nintendo moved into the toy industry. 6 / 8

  • This lead them to experiment with electronic games. 7 / 8

  • Now, Nintendo is the biggest name in video game history. 8 / 8