Gunpei Yokoi designed the Nintendo 3DS...

[CartridgeBlower]

He created the Game and Watch...which led directly to the Nintendo DS years later.

He created the Virtual Boy...which used 3D as its main selling point...which led directly to the Nintendo 3DS years later.

In a very direct way, the Nintendo 3DS can be looked at as a modern-day update to his older ideas, represented by the Game and Watch, and the Virtual Boy. It's almost a direct combination of the two, isn't it?

While not technically the designer of the 3DS, it's hard not to admit that Nintendo is STILL feeling the lasting affects of his designs and leadership in the handheld market.

That said, shouldn't his legacy get more respect then? Maybe not as much as Miyamoto, but damn, it's hard not to argue he's helped shape current-day Nintendo just about as much as anyone, definitely on the handheld side. They really still haven't moved too far away from many of the ideas he put in place 15-20 years ago. Kinda crazy.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

In another more direct way, he did not design the 3DS.

 

[Mechazawa]

Miyamoto created Darksiders.

Thank you blessed Miyamoto for this glorious 40k MMO.

 

[Wario64]

I'm not saying it's Gunpei Yokoi but


It's Gunpei Yokoi

 

[DMczaf]

John Madden designed Final Fantasy.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

I cherish the man and what he brought to video-gaming (in short: bringing Nintendo to gaming, out of hanafuda), but this is basically long-term influence and handheld design precedents coming to play in the 3DS' design, so it's indirect if anything.

Gunpei Yokoi thread it is!

 

[Mael]

OMG!
MEGATON :
Gunpei Yokoi and Shigeru Miyamoto team up to make the xBox 360!!!!!!

Spoiler

analog + Dpad?

 

[Emitan]

Gunpei Yokoi gave me next week's winning lottery numbers.

 

[Witchfinder General]

Benjamin Franklin invented the Amiga 500.

 

[SnorlaxSquad]

Halo invented the FPS.

 

[GCX]

In fact, Gunpei Yokoi's spirit is controlling Iwata. If you listen closely you can hear his whisper when Iwata flips his hair.

 

[Wolfe]

George Lucas invented Midichlorians.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Game & Watch—it's how Gunpei plays Ball with Iwata, like old times.

Actually, he puts the input into the Big Uchi, first, and finally into Iwata.

 

[EvetS]

Gore invented global warming!

 

[Keyser Soze]

So it is his fault then?

 

[Eusis]

Halo invented the FPS.

No no, you're doing this wrong.

Duck Hunt did. The Projector version, though though NES one helped too.

 

[TheyTookOurJobs]

I follow your logic. Many of those game & watch games are available as virtual console games, as well.

 

[Axalon]

Babbage created the iPhone

 

[Emitan]

So it is his fault then?

Everything is Yamauchi's fault.

 

[udivision]

Gaf created the internet created the Gaf.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Everything is Yamauchi's fault.

Well of course. Only he can influence the future.

 

[SnorlaxSquad]

No no, you're doing this wrong.

Duck Hunt did. The Projector version, though though NES one helped too.

Guess this proves it - Gunpei Yokoi invented Halo.

 

[Emitan]

Guess this proves it - Gunpei Yokoi invented Halo.

Yeah but Miyamoto could have if he wanted to.

So Miyamoto delegated Halo to Yokoi.

 

[Odrion]

Gunpei Yokoi was told that he could make anything that he wanted.

So he created God.

 

[nincompoop]

Mario 64 invented the third dimension.

 

[civilstrife]

In another more direct way, he did not design the 3DS.

Fucking lol

 

[Gospel]

here another one: You create the world when you wake up every day. When you go to sleep, the world goes away.

i'm tellin you, that's some deep profound shit, son.

 

[Poyunch]

here another one: You create the world when you wake up every day. When you go to sleep, the world goes away.

that's some deep profound shit, son

Tell that to the crows that caw and wake me up in the morning. :I

 

[Gospel]

Tell that to the crows that caw and wake me up in the morning. :I

They exist in the inbetween; the place where your consciousness and your subconciousness collide.

 

[IrishNinja]

Alexey Pajitnov made Lumines, and a fuckton of things

 

[Mael]

They exist in the inbetween; the place where your consciousness and your subconciousness collide.

Did you write Kingdom Hearts?

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

We can thank John Romero for free-look in OoT, guys.

 

[TheyTookOurJobs]

here another one: You create the world when you wake up every day. When you go to sleep, the world goes away.

i'm tellin you, that's some deep profound shit, son.

I think we've got a philosophy major in the house.