Gumpei Yokoi 横井 軍平

Did this ever happen?

 

Hi,

Not sure how far this project has come, or what has come of this, however I have a thought.

My idea would be to have the skilled programmers, create a short interactive experience that could run on a original gameboy. I am not talking anything to complex. It would be awesome to put a cart into a gameboy, and then see a tribute to Gumpei appear on the handheld.

One could create a custom cart label to go with it, maybe somebody could respray the cart gold/silver and re-spray a gameboy to match.

Im sure there are some really talented programmers on here, this approach could have a more original and successfull outcome, over a bust approach.

I realise there could be a lot of work involved here. I thought I would throw this out there as an idea.

Dan.

 

http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Tutorials
http://www.devrs.com/gb/docs.php#faqs
Give it a go yourself, a simple text tribute should be within reach of anyone persistent enough, regardless of programming ability, even if it's just messing around with a "hello world" code example.

 

Wow thanks! I will have a good look at the content from those links over the next few days, see If I can come up with something. Cheers!

 

No sure if this is any use, but here's a photo from a French biography of the man when he was younger:



The biography itself might be useful as well:
http://editionspixnlove.fr/collectiondetail.php?ID=49

I wonder if it's available in English as well? It looks like a good read.

 

Gumpei rocking the pompadour and Elvis side burns, so awesome!

 

Maybe bacteria might know something.

 

I think it'd be cool to make a plaque look like the game boy, and then have his face put on the screen.

 

I did a report about him I believe a year ago for my game dev class.

 

It would look much nicer as a gameboy with a picture of Gunbpei Yokoi on the screen, not sat on top like a GameBoy Camera.

If you wanted to take it to the next level you could make a ROM as a photo gallery or something and flash it to a cart and have it displayed on a real GameBoy. Maybe even bronze said GameBoy.

IMO the best way to remember them is not via plaque etc, but buy continuing to buy and enjoy their products.

 

I don't think so. I have the book, but can't access it right now... it's probably the best source for information on the man available though (at least as far as non-Japanese books go, I don't know if there are better biographies on him in Japan).

 

Was reading Game Over: Press Start To Continue and The Ultimate History of Video Games today....both books have huge sections on GUNPEI YOKOI....he will be missed....

Loved all his creations like Game & Watch, the Game Boy, Metroid, Kid Icarus, and the WonderSwan!!!!!

And to be honest, I thought the Virtual Boy was pretty neat (had to play it in short bursts...but, it was fun!)

 

All of his inventions have a some-sort of charm to them that is almost indescribable. I found all of his creations, including the virtual boy insanely entertaining.

 

^what a pimp in that photo! haha

also i wonder if this pixe n' love book (http://www.pixnlovepublishing.com/Gunpei-Yokoi.html) on him will ever show up; i thought amazon had solid dates but it's been forever since i ordered, seems "TBA" now sadly.

 

I've been waiting impatiently on the pix n love book to release. Ended up picking up Service Games and Atari Inc. while I'm waiting.

 

Yeah, why has that still not released?

 

What? This is a thread to talk about Gumpei Yokoi.