Which came first, Apple or Nintendo?
Which came first, Apple or Nintendo?
Nintendo
1889 — 87 years before Apple
Nintendo came first, by 87 years. Fusajiro Yamauchi began making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto.
Side by side
| Apple | Nintendo | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1976 | 1889 |
| Date | 1976-04-01 | 1889-09-23 |
| Category | company | company |
| What happened | Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company. | Fusajiro Yamauchi began making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto. |
Apple
Apple was founded on 1 April 1976, a year and a day after Microsoft. Ronald Wayne, the third founder, sold his 10% stake back for $800 twelve days later. The Apple I was a bare circuit board sold for $666.66; the Apple II of 1977 was the machine that made the company.
Nintendo
Nintendo was founded in 1889 to make handmade hanafuda cards, and it was a playing-card company for about eighty years. It is older than the Ford Motor Company (1903), older than the aeroplane, older than the Eiffel Tower by five months, and older than the modern Olympic Games. Before settling on video games in the 1970s it tried taxis, instant rice and a chain of love hotels.
Common questions
- Which came first, Apple or Nintendo?
- Nintendo, by 87 years — 1889 against 1976.
- When did Apple start?
- 1976. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
- When did Nintendo start?
- 1889. Fusajiro Yamauchi began making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)