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This philosophy seems to be in Weinstein and Kramer’s DNA at this point, and in a way, it reminds me of the late Gunpei Yokoi’s “lateral thinking with withered technology” approach: it’s using a piece ...
Theoretically, that could have made piracy and unlicensed games a problem if the console had succeeded, but we'll never ...
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It is a philosophy Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi called "lateral thinking of withered technology" - a belief that games don't require cutting-edge technology, just innovative applications.
Gunpei Yokoi would live to see the Pocket’s release, leaving Nintendo in 1996 (possibly or not due to his work on the Virtual Boy). He would then sadly pass away due to a traffic accident in ...
Enter Gunpei Yokoi. ... Yokoi looked into creating a full colour version of the system but found it would cost around $500, far more than a consumer could be expected to pay at the time.
Gunpei Yokoi is the man behind the iconic Game Boy handheld video game device, but he started out as a janitor for the company. Yokoi applied for an electronics position in Nintendo in 1965, but the ...
That started with the hotel’s namesake and inspiration, the Japanese-born artist Teruko Yokoi. The painter was a one-time resident of the Hotel Chelsea (the property still has a few dozen full-time ...
Yokoi, who passed away in 2020, painted some of her most important early works while living at the hotel from 1958 to 1961. Known for weaving modern American abstraction with Japanese visual ...