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Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made a type of playing card
You could write a story about a samurai and cowboy playing with Nintendo cards and drinking Coke and it would be historically accurate.
Don’t forget the yakuza money laundry made by Nintendo
If you dig back enough, literally every Japanese corpo roots go to some usury house or gambling den in Edo period. Or worse, to aristocratic family. Or both.