I commented just that three hours earlier (than this comment) at SemiHypercube's comment but though people won't seen it as much if it was commented as its own!
Love how we also rushed through the fact that Nintendo and Disney worked together way before our time. I find it strange however that nobody knows the exact meaning of the term "Nintendo".
It's because of how Japanese, and especially Kanji works. There can be multiple meanings to 'Nintendo' So, people can translate it, but no one knows which meaning was being used by Nintendo when they first coined the name.
I took a look at WarioWare in japanese (Made In Wario) to see if they spelled Diamond Taxi like the old Daiya Taxi - and nope, it's ダイヤモンド タクシー (Daiyamondo Takushii). Still could be a reference if you ask me, considering the characters Dribble & Spitz are canonically Taxi drivers so the name of the Taxi company has some importance. There's no way to be sure without asking someone who was in charge directly I suppose
I’d really like to see a video about Nintendo’s obscure love hotels in the future. I’ve literally never seen a single picture of them online. It would be really hard to research this, but it would be fascinating to unearth that part of their history.
Nintendo Executive 1: "I think we're gonna need to sell-off the taxi business, it's not doing so well." Nintendo Executive 2: "Is it bad?" Nintendo Executive 1: "It's daiya."
For Nintendo, if you know its history, running and taxi company isn't as bizarre as it seems. They used to run a toy business and even love hotels. And I'm glad the picture at 0:49 was found as it's been lost for a long time. I remember it wasn't anywhere online prior to 2018. More old pictures are starting to see a light of day as now you'll easily find one of Nintendo 1949 New Year staff commemoration (this was when Nintendo was still a Playing Card company).
Happy to see a reference to Florent Gorges, every book he wrote is a golden mine for every Nintendo's fan and it's packed with lot of exclusive documents.
When I was a kid, I read in the Nintendo Club's magazine about the history of Nintendo and where the name came from: When the company was founded, it originally had a different name (I can't remember) and struggled with their business. After deciding to change the company's strategy to producing the cards (which was considered morally doubtful), the name was changed to Nintendo, which, as it was stated, translated roughly to "Leave-It-To-The-Fate-Store/Booth", indicating, that this was rather a result of desperation.
I actually did a documentary of nintendo history for my class, the beginning part is basically my exact script, atleast I know I was accurate! I also mentioned the taxis and the hotels they used to do
“Over the years, the most prominent theory has become ‘Leave luck to the heavens’. But I cannot emphasize enough, that is just a theory” *”A GAME THEORY! Thanks for watching!”*
i remember there was three things nintendo made during this era one was the taxi service, one was a love hotel and the third was an instant rice product
In my hometown, there was a small taxi company; literally called, "Mario's Taxi Kart." It even had an image of Mario on their vehicle!! Though that was back in 2014... and I may have the name wrong; but it had Mario's image and name in it
I wonder if it was fate for them to sell the taxi division, if they kept it they probably wouldn't have become the most influential game company in the world! Probably superstition though
"Everything I tried failed" Well geez, perhaps if you didn't treat employees like machines and actually listened to Square about the Nintendo 64, maybe things wouldn't have gone the way they did. Sorry, don't mean to rant but I've never liked Hiroshi Yamauchi, the only good thing to come from his run is when Mr Iwata took over from him.
He sold his share of rare and that was enough to make me disown him and permanently disconnect myself from being loyal to Ninty. They were like the pixar of videogames.
@Become upset. Well that DOES make me upset, because DK64 mightve been a warning sign. I legit love the aesthetic but for a Nintendo property the gameplay was awful, how do you prioritise banjo-kazooie over the property of the company gobbling up like shares. iirc the Stamper Bros stopped Nintendo at around 50% because they wanted to be bought completely, but their plan failed and doomed the company.
don't forget about the love hotels. Also from what I've read I got the impression the reason they started venturing into other businesses was to try to separate themselves from the yakuza culture that playing cards had become associated with at the time, but maybe that is just a commonly spread dramatic myth.
The diversified business model adapted by Nintendo actually makes sense. Other Japanese companies do it too, like Toshiba. The latter even had submarine manufacturing and nuclear power plants. Most western game studios (the smaller ones) rely solely on game development. One or two major failures and they close down.
this is one of things that i like about this channel, bringing a very obscure info that no one else ever tell, not that the info have big impact or anything, but still a nice little info nevertheless.
Fun Fact: First, Nintendo was known by making home games, such as hanafuda like you said, but, they ran it because the inventor loved cars and they even made a car card game. Because the word "card" was by "car".
When'd Nintendo say that? I haven't heard that before and I'm curious Also that's kind of weird because some of their games have focused on religion. Like how The Church of Seiros is prominent in Fire Emblem Three Houses
@@CheesyLizzy It was policy of NoA in the 80s and early 90s, it was essentially so the games on their systems didn't run afoul of right wing parents organizations, which were rampant at the time. Nintendo Japan could care less though. Also policies of a separately run branch of Nintendo is irrelevant to this video or the possible meaning of their name.
I would be quiet disappointed if Nintendo didn't own pizza chains at some point... at least they had that Nintendo Wii delivery channel not too long ago that had its own video already.
Nintendo: "yeah, if you read that story from me, I'm basically like hundreds of years old. I'm even older than other competitors like Sega, Microsoft, Atari and others. And we had so much debt, taxi drivers is one of them, we also became rice chefs and love hotel owners, not kid friendly but a business is a business. And Japanese companies like me live longer, well maybe Hong Kong companies live longer than I do but that's the point."
Maybe the meaning of Nintendo might mean gimmick, because every Nintendo Console has had a gimmick into them to this day. The other Nintendo Projects before they went into gaming feels like they might of had some gimmick to them?
There’s a book you forgot to mention unless you’re mentioning it in this video. It’s written by Jeff Ryan. It’s called super Mario how Nintendo conquered America.
"However if you look at their website, this taxi company isn't mentioned anywhere" dude why the fuck would they mention a brief 1960s taxi service on a website in 2022 lol
