History of Nintendo card business reached its saturation point. Japanese households stopped buying playing cards, and the price of Nintendo stock fell from 900 yen to 60 yen. In 1965, Nintendo hired Gunpei Yokoi as a maintenance engineer for the assembly line. However, Yokoi soon became famous for much more than his ability to repair conveyor belts. Nintendo struggled to survive in the Japanese toy industry; it was still small at this point, and dominated by already well-established companies such as Bandai and Tomy. Because of the generally short product life cycle of toys, the company always had to come up with new
University Games Corporation some of their characters on a 3D puzzle line that sells successfully in the largest retail store chain in the world - Walmart (11,600 stores). University Games Corporation University Games Corporation is an American game company, based in San Francisco, California. The company was founded on April 1, 1985, by Bob Moog and Cris Lehman. It has developed and manufactured over 200 games since. The very first product released by the company was Murder Mystery Party, and it generated $385,000 in 1985. In 1986 and 1987 the Company expanded its product line by adding more games including the bestseller, Twenty