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Nintendo was founded in Kyoto, Japan in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, originally as a manufacturer of handmade Japanese playing cards called hanafuda, nearly a century before the company entered the video game industry at all. The company transitioned into video games in the late 1970s and became a defining force in the industry with the 1985 North American launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System, widely credited with reviving the American home video game market after the industry's severe 1983 crash. Nintendo's stable of first-party franchises, including Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon, have become among the best-selling and most culturally recognized video game properties in history, and the company has consistently pursued a distinctive strategy of innovative hardware, from the Game Boy to the Wii's motion controls to the hybrid handheld-and-console Nintendo Switch. Nintendo's combination of its remarkable 19th-century origins as a playing card company and its role reviving the American video game industry after its 1983 crash has made it one of the most historically significant companies in gaming.
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Valve Corporation
Valve was founded in 1996 by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, and it first gained major industry recognition with the 1998 release of Half-Life, a first-person shooter widely credited with pioneering scripted, narrative-driven level design in the genre. The company launched Steam in 2003, originally built to distribute automatic updates for its own games, before growing it into the dominant digital PC game distribution platform in the world, fundamentally reshaping how PC games are sold, updated, and played. Valve has remained privately held throughout its history and has developed a distinctive, famously flat internal management structure with no formal management hierarchy for most employees, an organizational approach widely discussed and studied within the broader tech and gaming industry. Valve Corporation's combination of Half-Life's genre-defining influence and Steam's transformation into the dominant PC gaming storefront has made it one of the most structurally influential companies in gaming history.
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