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Nintendo is older than the fall of the Ottoman Empire

Founded in 1889, making playing cards.

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Nintendo began as a manufacturer of hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto. Before settling on video games it tried taxi services, instant rice, love hotels and a toy vacuum cleaner. The Ottoman Empire formally ended in 1922, more than three decades after the company was founded.

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