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	Gumpei Yokoi : R.I.P.
		Gumpei Yokoi : R.I.P. Gumpei Yokoi : R.I.P. The video gameindustry lost a great man. Responsible for Nintendo's biggest success, the Game Boy, Yokoi was Nintendo's biggest asset.
		Yokoi died as he was side-swiped by another vehicle while he was out checking his own car as they had just bumped another - they were checking for damage - Yokoi was killed, his colleague only suffered bruised ribs.
		Yokoi was assigned (working with a young prodigy, Shiguru Miyamoto) to work on arcade games to cash in on the craze.
	www.angelfire.com /ms/virtualboy2 (553 words)

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		Gumpei Yokoi was one of the most important persons for the videogames market.
		Gumpei Yokoi was the leader of R&D1 as I said before and he made games as Metroid.
		Gumpei Yokoi was the creator and he dropped of Nintendo after this.
	home.swipnet.se /cpg/zn.txt (3753 words)

	Nintendo Now - Features
		Since Gumpei Yokoi released his non-linear side-scroller, the series has remained a strong mainstay in the Nintendo lineup and has a very powerful cult following.
		Yokoi’s weapon system was also adopted by Miyamoto when he made Zelda.
		Yokoi’s ideas of non-linear gaming would serve well for action/adventure games for years to come.
	nintendonow.e-mpire.com /index.php?categoryid=5&m_articles_articleid=2864 (828 words)

	Nintendo Universe 11.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		It was over all the same thing as the first Game Boy, except for the fact that it used 2 AAA batteries which allowed 10 hours of game play, and it was small enough to fit into a pocket.
		Yokoi wanted to allow it to use full color, but that would of made the price to expensive for consumers to afford.
		Gumpei Yokoi was so upset over his failure he left Nintendo and stared his own company, Koto Labs.
	www.nintendo-universe.com /index.php?ht=Past-Systems.html (502 words)

	Gunpei Yokoi
		After Gumpei graduated from college with a degree in electronics he started looking for a job and was hired by Hiroshi Yamauchi to maintain the assembly line famous for Hanafunda cards.
		After the success of the love tester Gunpei Yokoi hired Masayuki Uemoura from Sharp and they began developing the Nintendo Beam Gun games using the solar cells from Sharp.They began experimenting with solar cells to be used as sensors to detect light coming from, for example a lightgun.
		Yokoi, the dean of Nintendo's engineers, was an extremely humble man who always preferred talking about his companies success to taking credit for his own accomplishments.
	gaysucks.tripod.com /teamcbr/id12.html (1320 words)

	NINTENDO VIRTUAL BOY
		The Virtual Boy was the brainchild of Gumpei Yokoi head of Nintendo's R & D team #1.
		Yokoi was able to achieve a 3D effect by projecting two separate images (one fl, one red) on to two mirrored high-resolution LED screens.
		Yokoi also added 16-bit digital stereo into his new system design.
	www.webspawner.com /users/gamesforyourpc/nintendovirtual.html (639 words)

	Gunpei Yokoi
		Gunpei Yokoi (横井軍平 sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi) (September 10, 1941-October 4, 1997) is one of the most important figures in the history of Nintendo, a Japanese video game company.
		In 1996, Yokoi left Nintendo to form a new company, Koto.
		Kisoo and Yokoi pulled over to examine the damages to the two automobiles, and then a car driven by Iwao Tsushima of Yamanakamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture, slammed into the two men.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/g/gu/gunpei_yokoi.html (254 words)

	Game Boy Designer Killed in Traffic Accident
		OKYO -- Gumpei Yokoi, who designed Nintendo Co.'s Game Boy, a handheld video game popular with youngsters worldwide, has been killed in a traffic accident, a company official said Wednesday.
		As game development director at Kyoto-based Nintendo, Yokoi was the key figure behind Game Boy, which has sold 45 million units worldwide since its debut in 1989.
		Yokoi, who joined Nintendo in 1965, retired early last year to start an independent game-designing career, the company said.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/100997yokoi.html (150 words)

	What did gumpei yokoi invent: Toy and game design - succeed in the toy and game design business. Nintendo power
		What did gumpei yokoi invent that Yokoi liked to tinker around and build gadgets, he asked him to invent a Yamauchi did'nt come to Yokoi to work on the NES, though.
		What did gumpei yokoi invent He and Yokoi teamed up to invent a laser gun toy that was a booming success in Japan.
		What did gumpei yokoi invent a salesman for Sharp, Uemura met Gumpei Yokoi while on a sales call concerning do him a favor (and hire his son) -- he did, and the rest is history.
	s5-23.w.minminmini.org /s5-28.html (623 words)

	nintendo_paper
		Gumpei Yokoi was the designer of some of the most popular of these products, and he would play a crucial role at Nintendo in later years.
		In 1989, Yokoi released his latest creation, the Gameboy, which was a much better version of the GandW.
		Outkast also states that in 1997, ex-Nintendo game maker Gumpei Yokoi was hit by a car and died at the age of 56.
	www.geocities.com /wolfspider_64/nintendo_paper.html (2268 words)

	GameSpy.com - Article: GameSpy's 30 Most Influential People in Gaming
		The late Gumpei Yokoi is responsible for possibly the single most important innovation in video gaming ever -- Nintendo Game Boy.
		An entire generation has grown up on a diet of Game Boy's, Walkman's, Coke and MTV and the little handheld is so engrained into modern culture, that its hard to imagine life without it.
		Yokoi's other major achievements include working on the design and implementation of the ill fated, but highly unique Nintendo Virtua Boy, along with the Super Nintendo console.
	archive.gamespy.com /articles/march02/top30/3025/index3.shtm (558 words)

	Anticipating E3: Kid Icarus - NeoGAF
		Kid Icarus is one of Nintendo's lost franchises, and shares a lot in common with Metroid, Gumpei Yokoi's more well-known series (such as multiple endings).
		Yokoi also invented the Gameboy, and so it comes as no surprise at all that both Metroid and Kid Icarus spawned portable sequels.
		Perhaps it was out of respect for Gumpei Yokoi that Nintendo refrained from creating sequels to Metroid during the N64 era, and why Kid Icarus hasn't seen a sequel since the release of Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters on the Gameboy.
	www.neogaf.com /forum/showthread.php?t=94555 (1329 words)

	The Mind of Pellet Guy: Nintendo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		In the 1970's Nintendo hired an assembaly line worker named Gumpei Yokoi.
		Gumpei was a major tinkerer so naturally he liked to experiemt with things expacailly toys.
		After that Horishi promoted Gumpei from the assembely line and Gumpei developed other toys like a arcade light gun, a love testeing achine, and a baseball toss-catch game.
	pelletguy2.blogspot.com /2006/07/nintendo.html (1075 words)

	Ralph Space 3.0 - Mysterious Video Game Deaths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Gumpei Yokoi worked for Nintendo's founding Japanese operation for many years.
		After this disaster, Yokoi was apparently stripped of all responsibility at Nintendo and shamed by management for the failure of the product.
		Yokoi soon left to work on his own hardware projects, but his plans were shattered when in a bizarre auto accident he was killed while attempting to fix a flat tire on the side of a Japanese highway.
	www.concentric.net /~Flarb/deaths.html (1115 words)

	nintendo power
		Yokoi reminisces that his early days with Nintendo were “a time of great fun,” as he was “a cartoonist” working for Hiroshi Yamauchi (Sheff 22).
		When Yokoi informed Yamauchi of the growing popularity of shooting ranges, Yamauchi was adept enough to utilize the commercial potential.
		His flair to envision the potential of others truly distinguishes him; the brilliant inventions of Gumpei Yokoi and Shigeru Miyamoto highlight his talent.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~copeland/nintendo.html (2079 words)

	Archive 64: History of Nintendo: 1889 to 1999
		Yokoi was responsible for the most popular video game system of all time, Game Boy.
		Despite competition from color handhelds for years, Gumpei Yokoi's Game Boy has withstood the test of time and has morphed into the most popular video game system ever.
		Designed by Gumpei Yokoi, creator of Game Boy, the Virtual Boy utilized two screens, one for each eye, in order to provide its user a stereoscopic view.
	pennoaks.net /archive64/Miscellaneous_Articles/History_of_Nintendo.htm (4471 words)

	Nintendo's Pre-E3 Surprise - HOAX! - Retrogaming Roundtable
		Gumpei Yokoi not only invented the D-pad for Nintendo, but he was also the architect of the popular Game Boy, which has enjoyed worldwide sales of over half a billion games since its inception in 1989.
		In 1996 Yokoi was hit and killed on a Japanese expressway after a minor accident.
		Yokoi was in a minor accident, but was killed when he was struck by another vehicle when he got out to inspect the damage to his car.
	www.digitpress.com /forum/showthread.php?t=55870 (1872 words)

	GameCritics.com Forums - Metroid without Yokoi
		Yokoi supervised Metriod 1-3 and Wario Land 1.
		Supposedly they are helping a lot with game balance and level design, while Retro's main strength has been the artistic design of the game.
		As I recall, Super Metroid was made under Miyamoto's supervision, not Yokoi's.
	www.gamecritics.com /forums/printthread.php?t=163 (776 words)

	Chris's VB Page -- The Story Behind the VB
		Created by Nintendo's design guru Gumpei Yokoi, whose past glories include hardware such as the Game Boy, the Game And Watch series, and such sterling software as Super Metroid, the Virtual Boy is something of a mysterious product.
		Worse, there was no big-name Nintendo sales vehicle among the initial titles: Virtual Boy takes on the Zelda and Metroid themes were conspicuous by their absence at launch, and Mario Smash bears more resemblance to the original Mario arcade game then the side-scrolling plumber who has sold millions of hardware units.
		Gumpei Yokoi believes that the system is best suited to action and puzzle games, though he says that "in the future, role-playing games and simulations will become popular." However, creating expansive and complex games such as RPGs could in itself be problematic.
	members.tripod.com /~CJDy/vb/vbstory.html (1053 words)

	The Essential 50 Part 8 -- Game & Watch from 1UP.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Having launched his career with a number of successful novelty items, Yokoi was put to work creating an electronic device which would combine Nintendo's video game aspirations with its success as a toymaker.
		For starters, its success made inventor Yokoi a star player at Nintendo, and he later went on to create the first three Metroid games as well as the handheld system that transformed handhelds from minor diversion to legitimate console, the GameBoy.
		Yokoi's design was arguably trumped seventeen years later by the Neo Geo Pocket's clicky mini-stick, but the D-Pad served its purpose beautifully and completely changed the way people thought about controlling video games.
	www.1up.com /do/feature?cId=3133877 (2107 words)

	Vidgame.net: Nintendo Virtual Boy
		Considered the only 'blunder' of Gumpei Yokoi, which caused him to retire from his former employer, Nintendo Co. Ltd.
		Before it was released however, Gumpei was given the most dishonorable job: having to sell the product himself at E3.
		Gumpei wanted to make the system in full color, but he deemed this too expensive for consumer use.
	www.vidgame.net /NINTENDO/VIRTBOY.html (360 words)

	Gunpei Yokoi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gumpei Yokoi had become one of Nintendo's most respected members with his developing of the Game Boy alongside his other achievements.
		According to an episode of Icons (later changed to Game Makers) on the G4 TV channel, Yokoi was treated as an outcast before handing in his resignation on August 15, 1996, only days after the Game Boy Pocket was released.
		Despite Yokoi having left Nintendo over 10 years ago this principle of withered technology still casts a long shadow over the company, informing the innovative and currently successful design principles of both the Nintendo DS and the Wii.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gumpei_Yokoi (1791 words)

	Homenaje a Gumpei Yokoi
		Al señor Yokoi se le pidió que diseñara juguetes innovativos que atraparan a los consumidores.
		Gumpei, junto al RD1(Sección de Desarrollo de Nintendo) se les asignó la tarea de construir este híbrido.
		En 1996 Gumpei deja Nintendo para comenzar su propia compañía, Koto, de desarrollo de videojuegos.
	members.tripod.com /pokemonenespanol/gumpei.htm (398 words)

	MobyGames - Gunpei Yokoi
		Gunpei Yokoi worked as a planner and designer for Nintendo as far back as the 1970s, creating their first electronic toy, the Ultra Hand, and going on to create their lineup of Game and Watch games.
		Yokoi unfortunately died in 1997 in a car accident, but he recently was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in Japan, presented by Yuji Naka of Sonic Team and accepted in his honor by his family.
		To this day, millions of gamers in the world still carry a piece of Yokoi with them in their pockets.
	www.mobygames.com /developer/sheet/view/developerId,47438 (327 words)

	gaming: Old School Archives
		During the early 1980’s Gumpei Yokoi was asked to create a new toy for Nintendo which would result in the Game and Watch pocket systems.
		From this achievement, Yokoi also patented the Directional Pad or D-pad that Nintendo has used for many years.
		At the time of production for these small units, a joystick would be too difficult and clumsy to incorporate into a small system, so Yokoi, the great inventor created the D-pad, he called it ‘control cross’, which provided the most reasonable and accurate movements.
	www.flytip.com /blogs/gaming/archives/old_school/index.html (248 words)

	Gamers Europe » Nintendo » Editorial » Inside Nintendo: Gumpei Yokoi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Yokoi was effectively employed as a factory supervisor at the plant, and he confessed later in life that the real reason that he went to work for the big N was because he was able to commute easily to work from his home.
		Gumpei was a modest man and liked to downplay his achievements, it seems that Nintendo were a little naïve and took Yokoi’s personal views to heart.
		Yokoi’s conduct when departing the Japanese video games giant was a lasting tribute to his character when he refused to lower himself and engage in mud slinging.
	www.gamerseurope.com /articles/477 (2805 words)

	Retro Gaming Reviews and More - Donnie Sergent Jr
		Yokoi had previously designed hand held games for Nintendo with the cartridge based Game and Watch system, introduced in 1980.
		What Yokoi's team did was create a hybrid of the NES and the Game and Watch systems.
		However, these apparent shortcomings all served a purpose which Yokoi had intended.
	webpages.charter.net /donniesergentjr/videogames/nintendo_game_boy.htm (602 words)

	Miyamoto Shrine: Shigeru Miyamoto's Home on The Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		So, in that sense, we have all of this research and development work going on, and we look for the right timing in terms of bringing these elements together into a new hardware system.
		Yokoi on projects like Game Boy Pocket and Virtual Boy.
		Yokoi was so admired by the engineers he worked with that they were said to imitate the way he worked in the lab, addressed problems, and even the way that he dressed.)
	www.miyamotoshrine.com /theman/interviews/250504.shtml (2320 words)

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