Playing with Power: The Nintendo Story — Season 1, Episode 5: Reset Button
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 5 episodes • ★ 7.3/10
Episode synopsis
Plunging stock, natural disaster, a death in the family, and yet another failed console plague Nintendo. Not to mention a seismic industry shift led by Apple. Nintendo faces their most difficult decade since 1889, yet the Donkey Kong Company is never afraid to switch things up.
About Playing with Power: The Nintendo Story
Peel back the curtain on the famously secretive Japanese company that would eventually take the global videogame industry by storm. Discover the humble beginnings of a gaming business that began many decades before the invention of television, and ride along the bumpy road of hits, misses, and wild ideas that turned Nintendo from a local playing card maker into a worldwide household name.