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Trading card companies
- ToppsIn 1938, four brothers named Abram, Ira, Philip, and Joseph Shorin established a company that would eventually become the world's leading trading card…
- NintendoOn the 23rd of September 1889, a craftsman named Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a small unincorporated establishment in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto.
- Wizards of the CoastPeter Adkison opened Wizards of the Coast in 1990 outside Seattle, Washington. The company name came from a guild of wizards in an RPG he was playing at the…
- Square EnixSquare Enix began as two separate entities with distinct origins. Enix was founded on the 22nd of September 1975, by Yasuhiro Fukushima, an architect turned…
- Panini GroupIn 1960, Benito and Giuseppe Panini operated a newspaper distribution office in Modena, Italy. They discovered a collection of figurines that a Milan company…
- KonamiKagemasa Kōzuki opened a small business in Toyonaka, Osaka, on the 21st of March 1969. He rented and repaired jukeboxes for local bars and restaurants.
- ChaosiumGreg Stafford opened the doors to his new company in 1975 from a small apartment near the Oakland Coliseum. He named this venture The Chaosium, blending the…
- Decipher, Inc.Warren Holland opened a small office in Norfolk, Virginia, during 1983. He designed three jigsaw puzzles that required buyers to solve four cryptograms…