Hiroshi Yamauchi, the visionary who built Nintendo, dies aged 85

Hiroshi Yamauchi who was Nintendo's third and arguably the most important and influential president.
The day he took the reins from his grandfather in 1949, the Japanese company specialized in the manufacture of playing cards for its home market -- first there was Japanese-style cards and then, under Yamauchi's guidance, Western-styled ones too. By the time he had handed over control to Satoru Iwata some 53 years later, he'd overseen the creation of all of Nintendo's game consoles up until the GameCube and became one of Japan's richest men -- in other words, not a bad Legacy at all for a man who passed away today at the ripe old age of 85.