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In this video, Did You Know Gaming takes a look at the life story of legendary Nintendo developer Gunpei Yokoi -- creator of the d-pad, Game & Watch, designer of the Game Boy, and so much more. Follow DYKG on: Twitter: http://bit.ly/2oOavs2 Instagram: http://bit.ly/2oO4jjA Facebook: http://bit.ly/2nIrFp9 Website: http://bit.ly/NpYDbD Research/Writing by Dr Lava Video Editing by TheCartoonGamer Narration by Dazz Special thanks to Takefumi Makino; J Gushi and Jack Craig for lending us their copies of his books; our translator Jacob; BeforeMario.com's webmaster Erik Voskuil for consultation; and thanks most of all to Florent Gorges, for all his help making this video. Sources/Further Reading: 横井軍平ゲーム館 (Gunpei Yokoi's 1997 biography, approximately 40% in his own words, while the other 60% is paraphrased --by his co-author Takefumi Makino -- from long interviews he did with Yokoi with the express purpose of writing this book) ゲームの父・横井軍平伝 任天堂のＤＮＡを創造した男 (Takefumi's second Yokoi biography, published in 2010) Gunpei Yokoi: Vie Et Philosophie Du Dieu Des Jouets Nintendo (Yokoi's French biography, by Florent Gorges) The History of Nintendo Volume 2: The Invention of Game & Watch (by Florent Gorges, currently unavailable in English) The History of Nintendo Volume 4: The Incredible History of the Game Boy (by Florent Gorges, available in English) ポケモン・ストーリー (Pokemon Story book, contains an interview with Satoshi Tajiri) ポケモンをつくった男 田尻智 (Satoshi Tajiri: The Man Who Created Pokemon biographical manga) Gunpei Yokoi's memorial in the January 1998 issue of Game Criticism Magazine (Japanese) https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/6659 https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/projectbook/xevious/3 https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2006/1206/kaigai324.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20160216000203/https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/nsmb/0/0 https://patents.google.com/patent/US3960380A/en https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20180901010/ #gameboy #gunpeiyokoi #nintendo