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Here's where the fun started. While floundering to get a hit game in the arcade, they recruited young designer Shirgeru Miyamoto from Japan, who then created Donkey Kong. This saved the company and helped them to develop other popular games and eventually break into an dominate the home console and portable market. Prior to video games, Nintendo created a handmade card game (hanafuda) company in Kyoto, Japan. The rise of Space Invaders inspired them to think outside the deck and get into video games.