PEOPLE: Masayuki Uemura, age 77. Engineer at Nintendo from 1971 to 2004. Creator of the Famicom. Hiroshi Yamauchi. President of Nintendo from 1949 to 2002. QUOTE: Uemura: The colors [of the Famicom] were based on a scarf Yamauchi liked. True story. There was also a product from a company called DX Antenna, a set-top TV antenna, that used the color scheme. I recall riding with Yamauchi on the Hanshin expressway outside of Osaka and seeing a billboard for it, and Yamauchi saying, “That’s it! Those are our colors!” Just like the scarf. We’d struggled with the color scheme. We knew what the shape would be, but couldn’t figure out what colors to make it. Then the DX Antenna’s colors decided it. So while it ended up looking very toy-like, that wasn’t the intent. The idea was making it stand out.

Uemura on how he and Yamauchi chose the design for the Famicom, 2020.

Source: Kotaku

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PEOPLE: - Masayuki Uemura, age 77. Engineer at Nintendo from 1971 to 2004. Creator of the Famicom. - Hiroshi Yamauchi, age 92. President of Nintendo from 1949 to 2002. QUOTE: Uemura: [Former President Hiroshi Yamauchi] loved hanafuda and card games. I remember once, early on, a birthday party for an employee and he showed up and got right into hanafuda with everyone. He was a Kyotoite. It’s a city with a lot of long-running businesses, some maybe five or even six hundred years old. In the hierarchy of the city, traditional craftspeople rank at the top. Nintendo, as a purveyor of playthings like hanafuda or Western playing cards, originally ranked down at the very bottom. Doing business in that environment made him very open to new ventures. He wasn’t interested in specializing. He was keenly interested in new trends.

Uemura on what kind of person Yamauchi was, 2020.

Source: Kotaku

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