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title: "Which came first, Nintendo or the Statue of Liberty?"
description: "Nintendo vs the Statue of Liberty: the Statue of Liberty came first, by 3 years — 1886 against 1889. What happened in each case."
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# Which came first, Nintendo or the Statue of Liberty?

**Which came first, Nintendo or the Statue of Liberty?: the Statue of Liberty**

1886 — 3 years before Nintendo

the Statue of Liberty came first, by 3 years. The statue was dedicated in New York Harbor.

## Side by side

|  | Nintendo | the Statue of Liberty |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Year | 1889 | 1886 |
| Date | 1889-09-23 | 1886-10-28 |
| Category | company | landmark |
| What happened | Fusajiro Yamauchi began making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto. | The statue was dedicated in New York Harbor. |

## 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.

## the Statue of Liberty

Dedicated in October 1886, the statue predates the Eiffel Tower by two and a half years — and its internal iron framework was designed by Gustave Eiffel, who went on to use what he learned on the tower. It arrived from France in 214 crates and the American side had to raise the money for the pedestal by public subscription, which nearly failed. The copper skin is about 2.4 mm thick, roughly the thickness of two pennies.

## Common questions

### Which came first, Nintendo or the Statue of Liberty?

the Statue of Liberty, by 3 years — 1886 against 1889.

### When did Nintendo start?

1889. Fusajiro Yamauchi began making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto.

### When did the Statue of Liberty start?

1886. The statue was dedicated in New York Harbor.

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