Gunpei Yokoi
- In this Japanese name, the family name is Yokoi.
Gunpei Yokoi | |
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| Born | September 10, 1941 |
| Died | October 4, 1997 (aged 56) |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Gunpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei, September 10, 1941 – October 4, 1997), also romanized as Gumpei Yokoi, was a video game designer for Nintendo. He created the Game Boy and produced the Metroid series of video games. He was also a mentor to Shigeru Miyamoto.[source?] Yokoi's last invention, the Virtual Boy, was not a success. He left Nintendo and started a company called Koto Laboratory. His main product idea at this company was the WonderSwan, which came out in 1999, two years after he died.
