Gunpei yo koi biography book
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Gunpei Yokoi: The Life & Philosophy of Nintendo's God of Toys TP - Softcover
Synopsis
Gunpei Yokoi is a legendary and highly influential figure not just in Nintendo history, but in the history of the video games industry as a whole. Gunpei Yokoi was the inventor of the Game Boy and Game & Watch series, and the producer of several long-running, highly successful, and critically acclaimed Nintendo franchises, including Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. Discover the astonishing personality of this iconic figure in video game history, from his humble origins as a Nintendo maintenance engineer, through his classic and beloved toy inventions such as något som är extremt eller ytterst Hand, Ten Billion, and Duck Hunt, his pioneering inventions that changed the face of the film game industry such as the Game Boy, the Game & Watch, and even the D-pad that still appears on film game controllers to this day, right through to his parting company with Nintendo, and working on the Bandai Wonderswan, up until his tr
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GUNPEI YOKOI: LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE NINTENDO TOY GOD
Florent Gorges, Takefumi Makino
Game & Watch, Game Boy, Donkey Kong, Dr. Mario, Virtual Boy, WonderSwan, Tenbillion, Ultra Machine, Mario Bros., Ultra Hand, D-pad… All these famous gaming terms aren't just part of the family of the greatest playful inventions of the 20th century - they were born from the ingenious mind of one man: Gunpei Yokoi!
Discover the amazing story of this former Nintendo employee, or how this engineer managed to impact the entire video game industry.
An exceptional collection of exclusive testimonies made to Gunpei Yokoi, a few months before his death. Filled with many unpublished photos generously loaned by the family of the deceased, this book is much more than a tribute: it is also a real reference in terms of management, revealing all the manufacturing secrets of this man considered as the "god of toys" in Japan!
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAG • Japanese video game designer (1941–1997) In this Japanese name, the surname is Yokoi. Gunpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei, 10 September 1941 – 4 October 1997), sometimes transliterated as Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese toy maker and video game designer. As a long-time Nintendo employee, he was best known as creator of the Game & Watch handheld system, inventor of the cross-shaped Control Pad, the original designer of the Game Boy, and producer of a few long-running and critically acclaimed video game franchises such as Metroid and Kid Icarus. Yokoi graduated from Doshisha University with a degree in electronics. He was first hired by Nintendo in 1965 to maintain the assembly-line machines used to manufacture its hanafuda cards.[2] In 1966, Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo, came to a hanafuda factory where Yokoi was working and took notice of a toy, an extending arm that Yokoi made for his own amusement during spar |