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A homework assignment for a biography prompted my daughter to seek info on the inventor of the Game Boy. She is proud of the fact that she bought her version with the flip open screen long before her older brother has been able to save enough money to get one. She may be able to get him to help her. This should lead to some interesting "trading" between the two of them. The most curious thing her initial research uncovered was Mr. Yokoi's Love Tester; it became popular in Japan - but did it elsewhere?


Does Iwao Tsushima need to be linked? Are we ever going to have an article on this person, and if we do, why? RickK 03:09, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)

No, it doesn't. I unliked it. To me, the last paragraph sounds like something other than encyclopedia article. -- Taku 03:53, Oct 28, 2003 (UTC)


It doesn't seem completely clear that Yokoi invented the D-Pad. Can Someone clarify this? The USPTO lists several patents of his on the Game&Watch. And it's true that the Nintendo-style D-pad first appeared on a Game&Watch. But not all Game&Watch had D-Pads. The Patent for the D-Pad itself (#4,687,200) doesn't mention Yokoi. Possibly the Japanese patents tell a diferent story, but they should be the same. APL 03:46, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering where the vitual boy came in and what it is???I have not seen an issue with it but i no it was one of his failures?????(Koda)

When you played on the Virtual Boy, you had to look through its visor. The odd position this required and the glaring death-red view of crimson light caused discomfort for most users after more than ten minutes or so of play. Some of the games were quite good though. - Green Gecko

Gunpei Yokoi was murdered

He was. He was going to tell something to Bandai Nintendo didn't wanted Bandai to know. But, it was murder. I know.

  • So rather than just enforcing copyright regulations over trade secrets, they would rather have him publically killed and leave a big paper trail of supsicion? Genius. Rebochan 00:32, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That's funny. I remember propagating this rumour back in 1999 on USEnet about the "Nintendo Mafia". Good to see that the legend lives on

1st paragraph 3rd line

"He was the producer technologies". That sentence doesn't sound right, even if you put an "of" in it. Would the author, or someone otherwise in the know correct it, please.

The Virtual Boy

"Many people find it ironic that if the Virtual Boy would have been a success, Yokoi would probably still be working at Nintendo, and therefore be alive."

So what does this have to do about his death? (Plainnym 17:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC))[reply]

I agree that it is unnecessary and should not be there. It has little to do with his death and is such a useless "what if" statement that it should be omitted completely.

If that's the case, I'm going to remove it. And you forgot to sign your name. --Plainnym 18:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Death

This section is in conflict with the account from EGM (see picture, linked in article):

Seeing a car accident, Kisō and Yokoi pulled over to examine the damage of two automobiles.

The EGM article says they were involved in the accident.

While examining, two cars rammed into the broken down car from either side

EGM says one car sideswiped the two cars involved in the accident.

Kisō endured two badly broken bones and severe whiplash.

EGM says he only suffered a fractured rib.

I don't know which account is accurate, so I'm leaving the page as is. If the account given in the article is correct, I think it needs a source. Djedi 15:06, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe EGM is wrong. Steven Kent and his book The Ultimate History of Video Games(an excellent book covering video games up until late 2001) support the first claim, that they saw the car accident and that Kiso suffered some broken bones. TJ Spyke 04:14, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About the last vandalism

I was looking at what was replaced with garbage in the last change to this article, and I noticed it seemed that everything that was replaced had to do with Gunpei Yokoi, while what wasn't replaced near those areas didn't mention him. For example, the entire beginning was removed down to the part about the D-Pad, and another, down to just the part about the Famicom. Possibly going against my theory though is how the person left one or two lines, such as "The remaining members of R&D1 remained with Yokoi", and the parts after the Gameboy segment were left alone. However, those parts also happened to relate from the Virtual Boy to his death, basically removing everything he did for Nintendo, leaving only his "failure" as most think of it, and the console he never got to finish. An interesting opposite of the older vandalisms and talk comments that refered to him being murdered by Nintendo. DinnerSonic 04:14, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name meaning

Is there really any significance in mentioning that his name means plain army? I'm going to remove that. 199.126.137.209 18:32, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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