Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24530269-20190407101414/@comment-24530269-20190412073802


 * Nintendo was founded in 1889, but initially made playing cards and later vacuum cleaners. It wasn't until the 1970's that they entered the videogame business.
 * If you only count companies that started with games right off the bat, then the oldest videogame company in the world is Sega, with a foundation date of 1940. There, they started producing arcade machines for the military as well as coin-operated devices.
 * I can't remember who exactly it was (because even Google can't help me), but a certain explorer once circled around Australia without realizing it existed. Years later, Australia was discovered.