Former Nintendo chief passes away
Former Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi, who led the company’s transition from maker of traditional playing cards to global video giant behind the Super Mario and Pokemon video games, has died. He was 85.
Kyoto-based Nintendo said Mr Yamauchi, who owned the Seattle Mariners major league baseball club before selling it to Nintendo’s US unit in 2004, died on Thursday of pneumonia at a hospital in central Japan.
