In 1964, while Tokyo celebrated the Olympics, Nintendo's stock had collapsed to 60 yen because adults had abandoned card games for bowling alleys and pachinko, and the Disney-licensed children's cards had saturated their market. This episode profiles Hiroshi Yamauchi, who took over the family Hanafuda business in 1950 at age 23 after his father abandoned the family and his grandfather suffered a stroke, and immediately fired the employees who tried to strike against him.

The hosts follow Yamauchi's talent bets: promoting maintenance worker Gunpei Yokoi after spotting his extending arm toy, which became the 1.2-million-selling Ultra Hand and led to the solar-cell Beam Gun, and assigning staff artist Shigeru Miyamoto to salvage unsold Radar Scope cabinets, which produced Donkey Kong and a hero named after the warehouse landlord. They cover th ...