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Index Gunpei Yokoi

, sometimes transliterated as Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese toy maker and video game designer.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 107 relations: Atari Lynx, Balloon Fight, Balloon Kid, Bandai, Battle Clash, Calculator, Casio, D-pad, David Sheff, Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Donkey Kong 3, Donkey Kong Jr., Doshisha University, Dr. Mario, Duck Hunt, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Empire of Japan, Famicom Detective Club, Famicom Wars, Fire Emblem Gaiden, Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, Future US, Game & Watch, Game Boy, Game design, Game Gear, Game Informer, Game Over (Sheff book), GameCube, Gameplay, GameTrailers, Genyo Takeda, Gumshoe (video game), Gunpei Yokoi, Gunpey, Hanafuda, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Hogan's Alley (video game), Hokuriku Expressway, IGN, International Game Developers Association, Kid Icarus, Kid Icarus (series), Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, Kirby's Block Ball, Komatsu, Ishikawa, Kyoto, Laser Clay Shooting System, ... Expand index (57 more) »

  2. Game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients
  3. Japanese inventors
  4. Metroid
  5. Road incident deaths in Japan
  6. Toy designers
  7. Virtual reality pioneers

Atari Lynx

The Atari Lynx is a 16-bit fourth-generation hand-held game console released by Atari Corporation in September 1989 in North America and 1990 in Europe and Japan.

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Balloon Fight

is an action video game developed by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo.

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Balloon Kid

Balloon Kid is a flying platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy on October 5, 1990, in North America and on January 31, 1991, in Europe.

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Bandai

is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo.

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Battle Clash

Battle Clash is a 1992 light gun shooter video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Calculator

An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics.

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Casio

is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.

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D-pad

A D-pad (short for directional pad) is a flat, typically thumb-operated, directional control.

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David Sheff

David Sheff (born December 23, 1955) is an American author of the books Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy,Sussman, Mick (April 19, 2013).

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Donkey Kong (1981 video game)

is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo.

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Donkey Kong 3

is a shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo.

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Donkey Kong Jr.

is a 1982 arcade platform game that was released by Nintendo.

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Doshisha University

, also referred to as, is a private university in Kyoto, Japan.

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Dr. Mario

Dr.

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Duck Hunt

is a 1984 light gun shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console and the Nintendo VS. System arcade hardware.

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Electronic Gaming Monthly

Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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Famicom Detective Club

is an adventure game duology developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System.

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Famicom Wars

is a wargame developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer.

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Fire Emblem Gaiden

is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Famicom.

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Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Famicom home video game console in 1996.

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Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

, known in Japan as Fire Emblem: Monshō no Nazo, is a tactical role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems, and published by Nintendo for the Super Famicom home video game console in 1994.

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Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light

is a tactical role-playing video game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer.

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Future US

Future US, Inc. (formerly known as Imagine Media and The Future Network USA) is an American media corporation specializing in targeted magazines and websites in the video games, music, and technology markets.

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Game & Watch

The Game & Watch is a line of handheld electronic games created by Nintendo.

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Game Boy

The Game Boy is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America and Europe later that year.

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Game design

Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems and rules of a game.

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Game Gear

The is an 8-bit fourth generation handheld game console released by Sega on October 6, 1990, in Japan, in April 1991 throughout North America and Europe, and during 1992 in Australia.

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Game Informer

Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles.

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Game Over (Sheff book)

Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children is a non-fiction book written by David Sheff and published by Random House, New York in 1993.

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GameCube

The is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Gameplay

Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.

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GameTrailers

GameTrailers (GT) was an American video gaming website created by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones in 2002.

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Genyo Takeda

is a retired Japanese game designer and executive who worked for the video game company Nintendo. Gunpei Yokoi and Genyo Takeda are Japanese video game designers and Nintendo people.

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Gumshoe (video game)

Gumshoe is a light gun shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the VS. System arcade hardware and the Nintendo Entertainment System console.

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Gunpei Yokoi

, sometimes transliterated as Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese toy maker and video game designer. Gunpei Yokoi and Gunpei Yokoi are Doshisha University alumni, game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, Japanese inventors, Japanese video game designers, Metroid, Nintendo people, Pedestrian road incident deaths, People from Kyoto, Road incident deaths in Japan, toy designers and Virtual reality pioneers.

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Gunpey

, often written as Gun Pey or GunPey, is a series of handheld puzzle games released by Bandai.

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Hanafuda

(flower cards) are a type of Japanese playing cards.

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Hiroshi Yamauchi

was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, joining the company on 25 April 1949 until stepping down on 24 May 2002, being succeeded by Satoru Iwata. Gunpei Yokoi and Hiroshi Yamauchi are Nintendo people and People from Kyoto.

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Hogan's Alley (video game)

is a light gun shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo.

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Hokuriku Expressway

The, (abbreviated as, is a 4-laned national expressway in Japan. It is owned and managed by East Nippon Expressway Company and Central Nippon Expressway Company.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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International Game Developers Association

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is a nonprofit professional association whose stated mission is to "support and empower game developers around the world in achieving fulfilling and sustainable careers." The IGDA is incorporated in the United States as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organisation.

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Kid Icarus

Kid Icarus is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe and North America.

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Kid Icarus (series)

Kid Icarus is a series of fantasy video games by Nintendo.

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Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters

Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.

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Kirby's Block Ball

Kirby’s Block Ball, known in Japan as, is a 1995 video game developed by Tose and Nintendo and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy portable console.

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Komatsu, Ishikawa

is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kyoto

Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.

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Laser Clay Shooting System

The Laser Clay Shooting System (レーザークレー射撃システム) is a light gun shooting simulation game created by Nintendo in 1973.

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Lateral thinking

Lateral thinking is a manner of solving problems using an indirect and creative approach via reasoning that is not immediately obvious.

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Liquid-crystal display

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers.

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Love Tester

The is a novelty toy made by Nintendo in 1969.

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Mahjong

Mahjong (English pronunciation) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century.

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Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press is the university press of the University of Manchester, England and a publisher of academic books and journals.

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Mario Bros.

(sometimes nicknamed as Pipeline) is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo as an arcade video game in 1983.

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Mario Clash

is a video game produced by Nintendo in 1995 for the Virtual Boy.

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Mario Paint

is a 1992 art creation video game developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 (R&D1) and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Mario's Tennis

is a 1995 sports game developed by Nintendo for the Virtual Boy video game console.

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Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge is a 1993 light gun shooter video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Metroid

is an action-adventure game franchise created by Nintendo.

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Metroid (video game)

is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo.

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Metroid II: Return of Samus

is a 1991 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.

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Multiplayer video game

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g.

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Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School

is a 1987 dating sim developed by Square and Nintendo R&D1, and published by Nintendo exclusively in Japan for the Famicom Disk System.

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NES Zapper

The Zapper is an electronic light gun accessory launched within the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in North America on October 18, 1985.

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Next Generation (magazine)

Next Generation was a US video game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now Future US).

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Nintendo

is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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Nintendo 64

The (N64) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Nintendo DS

The (retroactively referred to as NDS or DS) is a 32-bit foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo.

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Nintendo Research & Development 1

(commonly abbreviated as Nintendo R&D1 and formerly known as before splitting in 1978) was a division of Nintendo, and is its oldest development team.

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Nintendo Tumbler Puzzle

The Nintendo Tumbler Puzzle, also known as the Ten Billion Barrel in English and originally in Japanese, is a mathematical and mechanical puzzle.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.

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R.O.B.

R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy) is a toy robot accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

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Reach extender

A reach extender (or reacher, grabber arm, helping hand, trash picker, picker-upper, extended gripper, long arm gripper, extended reach grabber, grabber tool, litter picker, or caliper) is a handheld mechanical tool used to increase the range of a person's reach and grasp when grabbing objects.

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Rib fracture

A rib fracture is a break in a rib bone.

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Satoru Iwata

was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer, video game designer, and producer. Gunpei Yokoi and Satoru Iwata are Japanese video game designers and Nintendo people.

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Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.

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Sharp Corporation

is a Japanese electronics company.

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Shigeru Miyamoto

is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. Gunpei Yokoi and Shigeru Miyamoto are game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, Japanese video game designers and Nintendo people.

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Shinkansen

The, colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan.

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Solar Striker

Solar Striker is a vertically scrolling shooter video game developed by Nintendo and Minakuchi Engineering and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.

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Super Mario Land

Super Mario Land is a 1989 platform game developed and published by Nintendo as a launch game for its Game Boy handheld game console.

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Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins is a 1992 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.

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Super Scope

The Super Scope, known as the Nintendo Scope in Europe and Australia, is a first party light gun peripheral for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Tetris (Game Boy video game)

is a puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy in 1989.

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Tetris Attack

Tetris Attack, also known as in Japan, is a puzzle video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Toy

A toy or plaything is an object that is used primarily to provide entertainment.

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Ultra Hand

Ultra Hand is a toy that was manufactured by Nintendo in the late 1960s.

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Ultra Machine

The Ultra Machine is a batting toy distributed by Nintendo and designed by Gunpei Yokoi in 1967.

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Urban Champion

is a fighting video game developed and published by Nintendo in 1984.

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Video game design

Video game design is the process of designing the rules and content of video games in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the production stage.

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Video game producer

A video game producer is the top person in charge off overseeing development of a video game.

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Virtual Boy

The Virtual Boy is a 32-bit tabletop portable video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo.

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Virtual Boy Wario Land

Virtual Boy Wario Land is a 1995 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Virtual Boy.

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Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 is a 1994 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.

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Wii

The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Wild Gunman

is a light gun shooter game developed and published by Nintendo.

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WonderSwan

The is a handheld game console released in Japan by Bandai.

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Wrecking Crew (video game)

is an action game developed and published by Nintendo.

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X (1992 video game)

is a 1992 space combat simulation video game developed by Nintendo and Argonaut Software and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy in Japan.

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Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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Yokoi

Yokoi is Japanese surname.

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Yoshi's Cookie is a 1992 tile-matching puzzle video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the NES and Game Boy platforms in 1992.

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Ziff Davis

Ziff Davis, Inc. is an American digital media and internet company.

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3D Tetris

3D Tetris is a 1996 puzzle video game developed by T&E Soft and published by Nintendo for the Virtual Boy.

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See also

Game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients

Japanese inventors

Metroid

Road incident deaths in Japan

Toy designers

Virtual reality pioneers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi

Also known as G. Yokoi, Gumpei Yokoi, Gunpei, List of toys designed by Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo Ultra Machine, Ultra Scope, Yokoi Gumpei, Yokoi Gunpei, Yokoi, Gunpei.

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