Hanafuda cards feature flowers and foliage from throughout the year. This Nintendo-made deck could date from between 1900 and 1930. Photo: Marcus Richert In the late 19th century, Nintendo got its ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - For many in the senior community, the card game hanafuda brings back a lot of good moments of growing up in the islands. Here in Hawaii, there is no one more qualified to ...

1889: Fusajiro Yamauchi founds Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan, to manufacture hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. Western-style playing cards originally came to Japan in the 16th century with ...

At her home in Honolulu, our grandmother hovered above us, inspecting our cards: illustrations of wisteria, chrysanthemum, cherry and plum blossoms and, if we were lucky, a crane perched among pine ...

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as ...

Nintendo has announced plans to covert its Uji Ogura Plant and the land surrounding the building to a new museum. As confirmed by the Japanese company itself (via a blog post), the decision has been ...