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What did Nintendo's founder begin manufacturing in 1889?

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Hanafuda playing cards

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Fusajiro Yamauchi started Nintendo by making and selling Japanese hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto.

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Nintendo's history began nearly a century before its best-known video game characters.

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