Nintendo spent its first sixty years selling playing cards — and its best customers were illegal gambling houses run by the Japanese mafia.

This is the whole story in order, from 1889 to today. How a man who never played a single video game built the biggest company in gaming. How one engineer who repaired factory machines wrote down a rule that saved Nintendo twice. And why in 2014, losing money for the third year running, Nintendo refused the one decision that would have made it profitable overnight.

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