Video Games/Systems

Roblox Corporate Office

Roblox was founded by co-founders David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004, originally under the name DynaBlocks.

The company changed its name in 2005 and was officially launched in 2006.

Roblox is an online video game platform and video game creation company. Roblox was a small company for many years, until sometime in 2010. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the demand for Roblox games has increased substantially.

Throughout 2017, Roblox engaged in a number of updates to its server technology, as the technology they were operating on until that point was out of date and led to frequent outages.

In November 2020, Roblox added a sound effect when a character dies, making an “oof” sound. This popular sound effect has become a large part of the platform’s reputation. The sound effect was so popular, that Roblox began charging users if they wanted that sound effect in their games.

In March 2021, the company went public on the NYSE under the ticker symbol RBLX.

The company’s stock rose 60% on its first day of trading, adding to the wealth of founder and CEO David Baszucki by $4.6 billion.

Roblox maintains a corporate office in San Mateo, California.

Nintendo Corporate Office

Nintendo’s beginnings started off very differently from the company we know today. Back in 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi opened a playing card company he called Nintendo Playing Card Company. The handmade cards were so popular that they were soon being sold around the globe. The company does still produce playing cards, but they are sold only in Japan. The word Nintendo is roughly translated to “leave luck to heaven.”

In 1963, the company renamed themselves to just “Nintendo.” The company tried many other business ventures in the US in the 1960’s, everything from taxis to motels, instant rice to television networks, but none of them were successful.

After partnering with a toy and game company in the early 1970’s, business began to turn around. They created a light-activated shooting style arcade game that became very popular and the company’s direction took an entirely new turn.

The company’s first video game was made in 1977. In 1985, the company created what would become one of the most famous video game consoles, the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, and video game in the world, Mario Brothers.

Today, Nintendo is one of the world’s largest video game companies, creating some of the best-known consoles and games in the world, including Mario Brothers, Pokemon, and The Legend of Zelda.

Nintendo is Japan’s 3rd most valuable company, with a market value of more than $85 billion. Headquarters are located in Kyoto, Japan, with the American corporate office located in Redmond, Washington.

Electronic Arts Corporate Office

Electronic Arts, also known as EA Games, develops and distributes video games.

The company was founded in 1982 as a computer games publisher by Trip Hawkins. In the late 1980′ EA began developing games in-house.

The company grew through the acquisition of successful game developers, and by the early 2000s, EA Games was one of the largest third-party video game publishers.

Today Electronic Arts is a leading global interactive entertainment software publisher. Its most popular games include The Sims, Bejeweled, Battlefield, FIFA, and Madden NFL.

EA develops games for PCs, mobile devices, and game consoles such as Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.

At the end of October 2019, the company stated that it would be investing heavily in live online gaming. It’s live game Apex Legends hit 70 million players, a 22 percent increase over last year.

Electronic Arts trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol EA, is a member of the S&P 500, is #620 in the Fortune 1000, has 9,300 employees, and had $5.15 billion in revenue in 2018.

Company headquarters are located in Redwood City, California.