Gunpei Yokoi: Difference between revisions

Gunpei [[Spell My Name with an "S"|(sometimes Romanized "Gunpey" or "Gumpei")]] Yokoi started out as a simple designer for a card company that had since spread out to produce toys of other varieties. One day, he saw a passenger on a train fiddling around with a simple LCD calculator. He had a brilliant idea from that - what if, in addition to keeping track of time as an LCD watch, the device could also play a simple game? He pitched the idea to his employer, [[Nintendo]].