" He told them he regretted that he had missed an early opportunity to invest in Nintendo in the 1970's. "They were just a playing-card company," Watanabe-san said, with a self-deprecating laugh. "Hanafuda. For aunties and little children, you know?" Nintendo's most successful product before they made Donkey Kong was, indeed, a deck of hanafuda playing cards.
"What's hanafuda?" Sam asked.
"Plastic cards. Quite small and thick, with flowers and scenes of nature," Watanabe-san said.
"Oh!" Sam said. "I know these! I used to play them with my grandmother, but we didn't call them hanafuda. I think the game we played was called Stop-Go?"
"Yes," Watanabe-san said. "In Japan, the game most people play with hanafuda is called Koi Koi, which means..."
"Come come," Marx filled in. "
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Donkey Kong was, indeed, a deck of hanafuda playing cards."What's hanafuda?" Sam asked.
"Plastic cards. Quite small and thick, with flowers and scenes of nature," Watanabe-san said.
"Oh!" Sam said. "I know these! I used to play them with my grandmother, but we didn't call them hanafuda. I think the game we played was called Stop-Go?"
"Yes," Watanabe-san said. "In Japan, the game most people play with hanafuda is called Koi Koi, which means..."
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