Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 任天堂株式会社) is an international video game company based in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi as Nintendo Koppai, the company started out handcrafting Hanafuda playing cards for the Japanese market. During the 1960s, Nintendo began to make different products, starting with board games and mechanical toys, then electro-mechanical toys in the early 1970s, and electronics as early as 1975, although Nintendo still makes Hanafuda playing cards