A quick perusal of the Nintendo corporate history on the company website reveals that the company burst onto the world scene in 1985 with the NES console system. Before that, let’s see, according to this timeline, absolutely nothing! Yep, Mario, Game Boy, Wii, that seems to be everything. Absolutely no reason to think that the company started way way back in 1889, and spent the first half of its existence as a playing card maker, transitioning to toys of all sorts, to include electronic gadgets, in the 1960s and 70s, before hitting the big time with the NES.
Thanks to the wonders of the internet, we aren’t stuck as shills for the man reciting some bland revisionist corporate history. We can tell the real story. The truth is out there! And that truth is, Nintendo came out with some quite nifty items in the time prior to the video game explosion. Things like the Light Telephone (full name is Opto-electronics Light Beam Telephone LT), a walkie-talkie system that utilizes a modulating light beam to transmit your conversation.
