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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 ...

Rogers tells PC Gamer he was "good friends" with Game Boy designer Gunpei Yokoi since, after all, "I helped him launch Game Boy and he helped me launch Tetris. So that was a mutual thing.

Engineer Gunpei Yokoi was credited with contributing to some of Nintendo’s other products including the control pad and Game Boy. ...

The Bandai WonderSwan, designed by the legendary Gunpei Yokoi, is a unique and fascinating handheld console that, despite its limited commercial success, boasts a rich library of games.

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.

[Image: courtesy Harper Collins] Navigating the Blue Ocean. As for the early game system that helped change the game, the story goes that legendary Nintendo creative Gunpei Yokoi was in the ...

His philosophy, mentioned in his Japan-only book ‘Gunpei Yokoi Game Hall’ (横井軍平ゲーム館), sums up the sort of thinking that vaulted Nintendo to the world stage; Yokoi coined the ...

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.

The original Ultra Hand was developed by the late Gunpei Yokoi, the creator behind Nintendo’s Game & Watch, the inventor of the cross-shaped D-pad seen on Nintendo gamepads, and the original ...