Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America

by Jeff Ryan and Jeff Ryan

Book Overview

The definitive story of the rise of Nintendo.

In 1981, Nintendo of America was a one-year-old business already on the brink of failure. Its president, Mino Arakawa, was stuck with two thousand unsold arcade cabinets for a dud of a game (Radar Scope). So he hatched a plan.

Back in Japan, a boyish, shaggy-haired staff artist named Shigeru Miyamoto designed a new game for the unsold cabinets featur­ing an angry gorilla and a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591845637
• ISBN13: 9781591845638
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher