TechHive: Nintendo's Hiroshi Yamauchi, father of console gaming, dead at 85

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Nintendo's Hiroshi Yamauchi, father of console gaming, dead at 85 Sep 19th 2013, 18:43 Nintendo fans, switch off your games and observe a moment of silence for Hiroshi Yamauchi, who died Thursday of pneumonia at a hospital in central Japan. Yamauchi, who was 85, served as president of Nintendo from 1949 to 2002. He continued to serve as an adviser after his departure from the company, and was one of the richest men in Japan. Under Yamauchi's stewardship, Nintendo hired Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto and launched the Famicom, the video game console that jumpstarted the North American game market when it arrived in the U.S. as the Nintendo Entertainment System. Video games wouldn't exist as we know them today without the NES, and the NES wouldn't exist without Yamauchi. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: yamauchi1-100054879-small.jpg

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