Posts Tagged ‘Gunpei Yokoi’

WonderSwan Color Bandai

WonderSwan Color Makes Debut in Japan – December 9th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History

The WonderSwan Color is one of many portables that we never got in North America. This is actually the second iteration of the WonderSwan, a portable originally released in March 1999. As the name would suggest, Bandai added color to this version, similar to Nintendo’s release of the Game Boy Color in 1998. Sadly, there […]

Oddballs in Gaming: Super Mario Land

Mario has been no stranger to the world of portable gaming. His first venture into the Gameboy was titled Super Mario Land. It was directed by Gunpei Yokoi who was also the creator of the aforementioned system. He developed this game without input of Shigeru Miyamoto and as such the game was contained in its […]

Google Cardboard Allows Gamers to Properly Play Nintendo Virtual Boy

The Nintendo Virtual Boy, for better or for worse, was quite the release for Nintendo.  For one, it was almost a unanimously bad commercial product.  Second, the way Nintendo handled the Virtual Boy cost them one of their lead designers, Gunpei Yokoi.  For many fans of the Virtual Boy though, it is not viewed as […]

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