What does nintendo mean in japanese?

[Sylentwulf]

Don't make me ask again. I can't believe I don't know it as it is (does it mean ANYTHING?)

[Ed Oscuro]

Leave luck to heaven

now GTFOMP

[-hellvin-]

Yep, something about heaven. I thought it was like Heaven is perfection but Ed's sounds better.

[SMB]

Nintendo (任天堂) (Nintendo is translated roughly as "leave luck to heaven" or "in heaven's hands," do is a common suffix for names of shops or laboratories) was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda (Japanese playing cards). Over the years, it changed to a video game company and became one of the most powerful companies in the video game industry. Nintendo of Japan, the main branch of the company, is based in Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan. Nintendo of America, its North American division, is based in Redmond, Washington and Nintendo of Europe, the European division, is based in Großostheim, Germany.

[Ed Oscuro]

Yeah...yeah, but that was off the top of my head! Gimme a break.

Now while we're on the subject...who knows what Sega means? (I do.)

[Cryomancer]

It's short for Service Games, if that's what you mean.

[chicnstu]

Service Games.

[Ed Oscuro]

You guys get cookies. The nice kind, not the ones I've been letting get stale. Good job!

[Dahne]

While we're at it, does Konami mean anything?

[Ed Oscuro]

Little wave.

Which is why the new Konami logo sucks ass.

[Querjek]

OKay, I've got a good one:
What does "Working Designs" mean LOL


Actually, does Capcom stand for anything?

[Ed Oscuro]

Sure. Japan Capsule Computers. Founded in '79.

[Iron Draggon]

OK, who else remembers what Coleco means?

[Lemmy Kilmister]

OK, who else remembers what Coleco means?

Wasn't it connecticut leather company?

[Ed Oscuro]

Yep! Another *old* company, like Nintendo. I think the Connecticut Leather Company dates from the 1920s, if not earlier.

[Sylentwulf]

Yep! Another *old* company, like Nintendo. I think the Connecticut Leather Company dates from the 1920s, if not earlier.

This one has always confused me.... Is there some story on how it went from connecticut leather company to cabbage patch dolls and colecovision video games? And then never heard from again?

[Ed Oscuro]

Hmm, they date from '32, not the twenties.

Here's a good, short reference about Coleco:

link (http://www.gamesanimal.com/joypast.php?req=viewarticle&artid=1134)

Basically they were victims of the diversification mentality that was popular at the time. Folks thought there wasn't any good reason you couldn't create a conglomerate that had seperate divisions producing spinach cans, tubas (metal products so far, so good...), and sails, as an example - even if the products weren't that closely related, surely it would work out. Unfortunately for Coleco, it seems they didn't even farm out their work to seperate divisions, and having a lot of diverse products with lots of different types of machinery and expertise meant that their fixed costs must've been huge (along with their variable costs, once again, as they must not have been able to move many workers from project to project).

[SMB]

whats Namco mean? @_@

[Ed Oscuro]

I've always suspected it meant National Amusments Company. It's apparently a shortened version of Nakamura Manufacturing Ltd., though, which maybe explains "Namcot."

Fun trivia: Founder is Masaya Nakamura. Hmm, what company shares his given name? Oh...it's Masaya! Probably a coincidence.

Founded in Tokyo, '55. Same era and business Sega got into the business during.

[max 330 mega]

what does taito mean???

[Wavelflack]

"Heaven helps those who recycle their characters and games"

[Querjek]

what does taito mean???

"Heaven helps those who recycle their characters and games"
Thanks for the new sig :)

[whoisKeel]

what does microsoft mean?

oh, the irony

[Ed Oscuro]

Hmm, what does Taito mean? Well, I know it's the name of one of Tokyo's 23 special prefectures, founded right after the war. It could be that Michael Kagan named the company after that Taito, Tokyo, but the address I have for them is 2-5-3 Hirakawa-cho Chiyodaku (still in Tokyo, though...but it's not a city, rather a prefecture).

According to this page (http://pages.prodigy.net/david_wolfe/pmaa/Japanese_terms_T.html) it means "Putting the sword into the belt." Sounds awesome!

I guess Taito was the other obvious choice to ask (I was wondering about it myself! :)

Next up: Irem

[Ed Oscuro]

"Takeda ryu was a martial art lineage that taught swimming in armor."

Irem: International Rental Electronics Machines.

[Querjek]

Haven't you ever used an irem to make your laundry less wrinkly?

I thought it was funny...

[Habeeb Hamusta]

I've heard somewhere that sega means masturbate in Italian or something. Anyone know if that's true or not?

[Ed Oscuro]

I've heard somewhere that sega means masturbate in Italian or something. Anyone know if that's true or not?
Read that the other day, yes. Wanking Master System =P