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Wikipedia said:Gunpei Yokoi (September 10, 1941 – October 4, 1997), sometimes spelled Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer. He was a long-time Nintendo employee, creator of the Game Boy and Game & Watch handheld systems, and producer of several long-running and critically acclaimed video game franchises.
In short, this guy created this million seller toy, back in the day when Nintendo was making hanafuda/playing cards.
Later he was the mentor of this guy that developed that one game with the plumber and the giant monkey during the 80s
Then he produced these:
But before that, in early 1980, after watching a guy messing around with his lcd calculator in the train, he was inspired to create this.
Which led to create this motherfucker along with the "pocket" version a few years later.
However, he was also the face behind this atrocity.
After retiring from Nintendo, he made this under Bandai:
Sadly, he passed away in 1997 due a car accident.
Wikipedia said:On October 4, 1997, while driving on the Hokuriku Expressway with his associate Etsuo Kiso, Yokoi rear-ended a truck driven by Takashi Okushima. After the two men had left the car to inspect the damage, Yokoi was hit and fatally injured by two passing cars. Contrary to urban legends of foul play, the driver of one of the passenger cars that hit Yokoi in the second accident was Gen Tsushima, a member of the tourism industry. Yokoi was pronounced dead two hours later.
So yeah, Yokoi was the man. I still remember the christmas that I got a Gameboy Pocket along with Pokemon Red, and it's all because of that guy.