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Nintendo existed at the same time as the Ottoman Empire.
Nintendo was founded in Kyoto in September 1889, selling hand-painted hanafuda playing cards. The Ottoman Empire still had 33 years left to run — the company that makes Mario shipped its first products under an empire founded in the 1200s.
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- Nintendo was founded in Kyoto in September 1889, selling hanafuda playing cards.
- The Ottoman Empire, founded around 1299, still had 33 years left to run.
- The company that makes Mario shipped its first products under the age of empires.
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