Gunpei Yokoi: Mr. Nintendo

basscomm writes "Nintendojo has the first two parts of a two part editorial on the career of Gunpei Yokoi. Mr. Yokoi worked at Nintendo for many years and was responsible for such innovations as the D-pad, R.O.B., the Game and Watch, Kid Icarus, Metroid, the Game Boy, and the ill-fated Virtual Boy. This prolific inividual was killed in an automobile accident in 1997."

Comments

Re:His name........

[ChaosEmerald]

This is a wonderful problem with Gunpei's name. If you translate the name directly into English (romaji) you'd get Gunpei. However, on his buisness card, he had Gumpei. However, his name was pronounced more like Gunpei then Gumpei.

Virtual Boy

[MikeFM]

Did anyone besides me and the VR group I'm in actually like the Virtual Boy? My only bitch is that there were never good specs released about it. We wanted to hack a Java virtual machine and Net connection into it but I don't think any of us ever got it all working. :)

Re:Virtual Boy

[superid]

My (3) kids like Virtual Boy. They'll put it away for a few months and then remember it, shove aside the super nintendo, put away nintendo 64, trip over the two gameboys and set it up again for a few days.

I have almost zero depth perception, so I never really saw the attraction.

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"The first two parts of a two part editorial"...?

[thesurfaces.net]

Hello? Isn't that the whole thing then? :)

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Re:His name........

[Anonymous Coward]

actually, I don't think either are correct. Even in Japan they usually don't put html tags around their names.

/mourn

[supabeast!]

/me bows softly in a moment of silence for Yokoi-san.

Don't forget his biggest contribution

[gorsh]

Right before his death, he created a little game called "Pocket Monsters" or, as it's better known, "Pokemon".

Re:first two parts

[Erasmus Darwin]

As oppose to what? Having the last two parts of a two part editorial?

Given that the end of the second part speaks of an additional upcoming part, it's appears to be at least a three part editorial.

Personally, I wish Slashdot would wait until these things were complete before posting the story. It'd be rather nice not having to worry about remembering to go back to a site that I otherwise don't visit. I could understand if it were an issue that was time sensitive or one where the Slashdot traffic was important to the outcome, but neither seems to be the case here.

No, he didn't

[Carlos Rodriguez]

The creator of Pokemon was Satoshi Tajiri, and Nintendo bought the concept from him. You cand find more about Pokemon and Nintendo at http://www.elecplay.com/feature_4096_page1.html
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If you heard about them ...

[SuperRob]

If you heard about them, then they wouldn't exactly be "unsung" anymore, would they?

Plus, some folks like to remain out of the limelight intentionally. Others strive for it. Still others try to avoid it, but are thrust into it's glare anyway. Perhaps osme of the names you mentioned are happy to be overlooked.

A Tragic Loss

[Slashdot Cruiser]

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Put up the damn GameBoy and pay attention to the road!

Unsung heroes.

[Eustis Burbank]

You never hear about the unsung heroes of the gaming age anymore, for instance people like Miazaki Romero and games like "Tenkuu no Shiro Daikatana" and "Dominion: Storm over Mononoke Hime"!