While its larger rivals battle with mainframes and supercomputers, there are those who tip Nintendo Co to become the first Japanese computer company truly to dominate its chosen market. Once a lowly playing card maker, Nintendo’s strategy for world conquest is to infiltrate its Famicom cheapo games-playing machines into every home as Trojan horses and then activate them by establishing databases and interactive information networks to deliver all manner of services to the things. And in the US, the company has now formed a division to begin building the information network. It aims to have Famicoms in 21% of US homes by year-end.
