In 1889, Nintendo was created. Created by Fusajiro Yamauchi in Kyoto, Japan, the Nintendo Company, originally named “Nintendo Koppai”, that now makes video games, started off by making Hanafuda cards. Like regular playing cards, these were used to play a variety of different games. Nintendo produced these by hand, and this caused their rise in popularity. More time passed, and Nintendo took over the market of Hanafuda cards. In 1959, Nintendo made a deal with Disney, which allowed them to make cards with Disney characters on them. This got Nintendo much more popularity with children, which gave cards a use for more than gambling. They created books with rules of various card games, to be sold with the cards. Over 600,000 decks of cards were