Seems wikipedia disagrees with what you've heard: His grandfather had a stroke in 1949. Since he was the president of Nintendo and had no other immedia

Seems wikipedia disagrees with what you've heard: His grandfather had a stroke in 1949. Since he was the president of Nintendo and had no other immediate successor, he asked Hiroshi to come immediately to Nintendo to assume the position of president. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Yamauchi#Start_of_his_career_with_Nintendo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Yamauchi#Start_of_his_c...