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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hiroshi Yamauchi (born November 7, 1927 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo, joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002, to be succeeded by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card-making company in Japan to today's multi-billion dollar video game company. He also became the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team in 1992, which is now managed by former Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln. As of 2008, Yamauchi is the third richest person in Japan and 149th richest in the world, having a net worth of approximately $7.8 billion.