We may earn a commission from links on this page. It was apparently a contracted hit. Gunpei Yokoi, father of the Game Boy who failed with the Virtual Boy, left Nintendo and was working with a ...

In this exclusive excerpt, Benj and Jose take you back to Nintendo of the early '90s, where a unique 3D display technology captured the imagination of legendary designer Gunpei Yokoi and set the ...

Legendary Nintendo designer Gunpei Yokoi was on an ordinary commute when something caught his eye. He noticed a businessman playing with a calculator. It wasn’t a game or anything, but the way ...

Named after Gunpei Yokoi, Gunpey is a puzzle game that requires players to connect line fragments to form a horizontal line. This game is notable for its unique gameplay mechanics and the tribute ...

While its design borrows heavily from the Gunpei Yokoi original, its physical makeup is attractive and modern, and its mix of FPGA hardware and overkill, high-resolution IPS screen do wonders for ...

When Massachusetts-based company Reflection Technology, Inc. pitched their head-tracking prototype device called the Private Eye, veteran Nintendo designer Gunpei Yokoi leaped at the chance to ...

There’s a direct line from legendary Nintendo designer Gunpei Yokoi, who spearheaded the Game Boy project, and the bells and whistles that made the DS a breakout success. Yokoi developed a ...

reliable technology — that Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi described in his book Gunpei Yokoi Game Kan. We’re already seeing some of that in the new Mario Kart game for Switch 2, which looks ...

IN THE NEW Mazda CX-50 2.5 Turbo compact crossover, Gunpei Yokoi is your co-pilot. The inventor of the Nintendo Game Boy, Yokoi-San developed a product-design philosophy he called “lateral ...