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1)   25 Dec 2007 12:35
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Searching for Gunpei Yokoi

"Yokoi's next big hit came to him as he rode home one evening on the bullet train. The exhausted engineer noticed the gentleman next to him fiddling with an LCD calculator. Yokoi watched, fascinated, as the bored man punched buttons in idle boredom. Suddenly, Yokoi wondered if weary commuters, looking to pass the time, might be interested in a portable gaming device. Thus was the Nintendo Game and Watch born."

Lara Crigger profiles the elusive creator of the Nintendo Gameboy.

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2)   8 Nov 2009 22:10
Paperboy
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This was a really nice article. I never realised that Yokoi was so instrumental to the start-up of Nintendo's gaming business.

3)   8 Nov 2009 22:18
Gone Gonzo
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way to necro a two year old article.

 
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