Gunpei Yokoi
, 1941 - 1997
Gunpei Yokoi worked on Kid Icarus (1989) and Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters (1991) as a producer, under Nintendo’s Research and Development Team 1. He was born in Kyoto on September 10, 1941 and later attended Doshina University, where he gained a degree in electronics. He began working for Nintendo in 1965, taking up several roles including janitor and assembly line worker. However, he began working on toys in his spare time and was noticed by Nintendo’s president Hiroshi Yamauchi (see here, accessed: May 24, 2018). He went on to invent several famous Nintendo products such as the Game & Watch and Game Boy. He also created the Metroid series and Mario Land for the Game Boy. Gunpei resigned from Nintendo in 1996, forming Koto Laboratories later that year. He tragically died in 4th October 1997, following a traffic accident (accessed: May 24, 2018).
Bio prepared by Nanci Santos, University of Roehampton, nancisantos@hotmail.co.uk
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