Gunpei Yokoi is one of the most important figures in the history of Nintendo. One of the engineers who helped turn the company into what it is today, ...

At Nintendo, Gunpei Yokoi was one of the company's most beloved and respected employees. A jovial, easy-going guy who loved British cars. His name is now synonymous with the company as he spent ...

Gunpei Yokoi, as Miyamoto's first supervisor and mentor, was the man who made the man. Gunpei Yokoi's time on this side of eternity was cut short. We never know how much time we're going to have.

Today is the 65th anniversary of the birth of the late Gunpei Yokoi. Ordinarily I don't take suggestions from PR representatives for blog ideas. It's not fair to me or you. But when a Namco Bandai ...

Gunpei Yokoi’s last major release at Nintendo was the Virtual Boy. It was a disaster, and there has long been speculation that it caused Yokoi to resign. In an article he wrote before his tragic ...

I'll remember Gunpei Yokoi for the rest of my life on the merits of Metroid alone, one of a few perfect storms in the history of gaming. Was disappointed that Metroid wasn't mentioned in the article.

Gunpei Yokoi felt that TV-based games had reached their limits and saw stereoscopic 3D as a logical next step to take video games into a new era of design.

Yokoi’s first Game & Watch unit, Ball, featured a simple juggling game.It was sleek, compact, and unlike anything else at the time. From there, the series exploded. Between 1980 and 1991 ...

When Massachusetts-based company Reflection Technology, Inc. pitched their head-tracking prototype device called the Private Eye, veteran Nintendo designer Gunpei Yokoi leaped at the chance to ...

In Gunpei Yokoi’s life, one can read both the history of video games and that of post-WWII Japan. Yokoi was born in Osaka in 1941, just a few months before the Empire attacked Pearl Harbor.