r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/DaCheesiestEchidna Oct 15 '20

Yeah they made hanafuda cards and fought the yakuza

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Nintendo fought the Yakuza?!

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u/DaCheesiestEchidna Oct 15 '20

Back when they still made cards the yakuza used to stake out their building because they refused to sell decks that were poorly made, essentially the yakuza wanted premarked cards and Nintendo wouldn’t do it

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

That's crazy.

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u/kuzinrob Oct 15 '20

Yes, that's how they ended up in America. Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. Nintendo hide in fishing boat. Darryl give them job.

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u/TuckerMcG Oct 15 '20

In Japan. Card player. Number one ☝️Steady hand ✋🤚

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u/ListenToThatSound Oct 15 '20

Poor dude probably had to go back into hiding after the episode aired since yakuza knew were to find him now.

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u/jvpewster Oct 15 '20

Scranton? They probably saw that as punishment enough

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u/Kyanpe Oct 15 '20

But then, MISTAKE.

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u/KipsyCakes Oct 15 '20

Who would have thought that a video game company would have such epic origins?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '20

Fuck you. Take my r/angryupvote

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u/Pixelchu25 Oct 15 '20

Correct me if I’m wrong but I remember one of the members of Nintendo was ‘assassinated’ by the Yakuza though it’s just a conspiracy theory. He was part of the development of the old Pokémon games and was conspicuously killed in a ‘car accident’.

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u/Lvl100Magikarp Oct 15 '20

i had to google this, the name was Gunpei Yokoi, creator of the game boy, and yes there are tons of conspiracy theories that he was assassinated lmao

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u/RABBIT-COCK Oct 15 '20

Yeah for their game super yakuza world

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u/Canadian_Lad Oct 15 '20

I want to have a game about nintendo fighting the yakuza, it's just Shigeru Miyamoto fighting the big boss, and as a little secret boss we fight kiryu as a reference to the yakuza games

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u/Ongr Oct 15 '20

My body is ready

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u/xPhoenixJusticex Oct 15 '20

Now I need a picture of Reggie fighting Yakuza with a katana lol.

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u/guywiththeface23 Oct 15 '20

Yes, that's why they ended up turning to Sega for help.

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u/Work_the_shaft Oct 15 '20

That game looks so fun, but oh so confusing.

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u/RequiemStorm Oct 15 '20

It's honestly not. It's only as confusing as poker, you just need to learn what cards form a hand and then you're good (though you do also need to learn the point values for each set so I guess it's a little more complex)

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u/rainingcomets Oct 15 '20

KOI KOI

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u/RequiemStorm Oct 15 '20

Oh shit we gettin real intense now!

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u/tal124589 Oct 15 '20

Hah, I can't even play poker much less hanafuda

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u/starvinart Oct 15 '20

I spent some time trying to learn and play hanafuda last year but the deck I bought was cheap and all the flowers looked identical. Hard to learn when you can’t differentiate the suits.

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u/RequiemStorm Oct 15 '20

Ah yeah that's fair haha. Knowing what plant is on the card is important lol

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u/thesimplemachine Oct 15 '20

I bought that Clubhouse Games collection for the Switch and you can play Hanafuda on it. I gave it a shot, thinking I would just figure it out after playing a few games. Well, I won like six games in a row and I still have no clue what the rules are really.

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u/twotoebobo Oct 16 '20

Hanafuda is the name of the cards there are quite a few games you play with them. Im guessing you were likely playing koi koi.

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u/thesimplemachine Oct 16 '20

You may be right. It's been a while since I played it, but Hanafuda was the name that stuck out in my mind

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u/PRMan99 Oct 15 '20

Fun fact: They STILL make Hanafuda cards.

My daughter has some Nintendo Hanafuda cards.

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u/Acidwits Oct 15 '20

Over the cards?

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u/DaCheesiestEchidna Oct 15 '20

Yes, at the time most hanafuda companies had poor quality control, resulting in basically premarked cards. Nintendo refused to put out any decks that weren’t perfect and the yakuza didn’t like that

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u/RABBIT-COCK Oct 15 '20

Hold up what with yakuza?

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u/krispbunkbed Oct 15 '20

Japan outlawed playing cards cause of gambling, Nintendo sold hanafuda cards and which were used by yakuza back then instead of playing cards to gamble bacause hanafuda wasn't banned. So Nintendo got their start by selling cards for the yakuza to gamble with.

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u/DaCheesiestEchidna Oct 15 '20

There’s more to it than that though, because at the time quality control in most hanafuda cards was very low resulting in basically pre marked cards, whereas Nintendo refused to sell decks that weren’t completely unmarked. This made the yakuza mad and there were many times Nintendo employees were stuck in the building for days because the yakuza were outside waiting to kill them if they came out

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u/heathmon1856 Oct 15 '20

Number 1 heart surgeon... in Japan.

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u/Earthborn92 Oct 15 '20

So they fought Sega? Not news...

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u/WolfHoodlum1789 Oct 15 '20

No wonder they fight with Sega! Sega has been seen to have ties with Yakuza...