Nintendo was founded the same year the Eiffel Tower was completed.

Nintendo sounds like a modern video-game company, but it began as a playing-card business in Kyoto in 1889. That is the same year the Eiffel Tower was completed and inaugurated in Paris. The comparison feels wrong because one name belongs in gaming culture and the other in 19th-century engineering, but their origin dates sit in the same calendar year. Nintendo did not begin with consoles or plumbers; it started with handmade cards while the Eiffel Tower was still a new landmark. The brand is much older than its most famous products.

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