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Gumpei Yokoi/Gameboy story on ICONS on G4TTV NOW!! WATCH!
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Yup... if the PSP's battery life is indeed terrible... it's DOA. It won't take developer long to realize that either. Don't get me wrong though, I really do hope that the PSP does have good batter life with it's most processing demanding games... none of this variable battery life malarkey
Spiritreaver
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Hah, this is my third time watching it is by far the only show besides the FF Icons that I have enjoyed from G4.
The best part is when the discuss the Lynx and how the developers laughed when they saw the GB demo. Good times.
The best part is when the discuss the Lynx and how the developers laughed when they saw the GB demo. Good times.
I learned a little something too. Apparently (according to Jez San from Argonaut, who at the time was privy to such information) Nintendo had a much better (portable?) system than the Virtual Boy, but that system was scrapped to give Yokoi's vision the go ahead.
Speaking about Yokoi, sad story about that window seat and all. Left to his failure, and no one allowed to talk to him.
Anyway, great show! Wish I had recorded it or something.
Speaking about Yokoi, sad story about that window seat and all. Left to his failure, and no one allowed to talk to him.
Anyway, great show! Wish I had recorded it or something.
bobbyconover
Member
I know a guy who captures every episode of Icons and posts them to Usenet. Hopefully he grabbed this one, cause I really want to see it!
If I find it, I'll let you guys know where to grab it from.
If I find it, I'll let you guys know where to grab it from.
Bluemercury
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bobbyconover said:
Do that please.....
StrikerObi
Member
Icons is pretty my G4's only good show, but it's really really good.
I watched it last night. I was pretty disappointed that they left out some of Yokoi's achievements like creating the light gun, working on Donkey Kong, inventing the d-pad and his involvement in other notable projects. They also painted the Virtual Boy as a totally stupid concept, when I feel it is going to be seen in retrospect as a revolutionary idea over the next decade. And no I never owned a Virtual Boy, but I do respect the genius of what Yokoi was striving for. Everything I'm seeing in the far corners of E3 each year convinces me that the Virtual Boy was our first glimpse into the next big step forward.
Overall this Icons was really good though. They even had stuff about the Nintendo DS and PSP, so it didn't feel like dated information at all. Any Icons where they talk about Yamauchi is a good one. I'm really glad I'm getting G4 now, thank god for this TechTV merger.
I love G4TV.com and Judgment Day too. Those are the 3 best shows on the new network.
Overall this Icons was really good though. They even had stuff about the Nintendo DS and PSP, so it didn't feel like dated information at all. Any Icons where they talk about Yamauchi is a good one. I'm really glad I'm getting G4 now, thank god for this TechTV merger.
I love G4TV.com and Judgment Day too. Those are the 3 best shows on the new network.
Yeah but you have to remember to factor in the fact that Jez San from Argonaut is a complete moron, so I wouldn't put much stock in what he has to say.Lost Weekend said:
Bluemercury
Member
Please someone record this and convert it to mpeg or something......
Scalemail Ted
Member
Will there be another showing of this?
And is there a good book about Gumpei Yokoi that I could pickup and read? i know a bit about him but I'm sure he's accomplished many more incredible things that I'm completely unaware of...From what I hear, he was a very charismatic individual.
And is there a good book about Gumpei Yokoi that I could pickup and read? i know a bit about him but I'm sure he's accomplished many more incredible things that I'm completely unaware of...From what I hear, he was a very charismatic individual.
bobbyconover
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For those of you familiar with newsgroups and downloading binaries, Icons s03e07 - Gameboy - has just been posted to alt.binaries.emulators.misc. Grab it while it's hot!
And no, Usenet isn't an IRC channel.
And no, Usenet isn't an IRC channel.
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According to their website, it was an Icons show (probably tying in with the 15 year history of Gameboy) about the history of Gameboy though, not a history of Gunpei Yokoi's other achievements.
I'm actually happily surprised they gave so much air time to Yokoi himself and not Pokemon etc. The footage they had of Yokoi's Japanese son and widow at the end was pretty moving.
I understand that, but they did go into some of his contributions that had nothing to do with Gameboy, like Metroid. I don't know how they could talk about Game & Watch and Gameboy and fail to mention that the guy invented the D-pad. That seems like a pretty big oversight to me. I doubt Yokoi is going to get his own Icons, so it's kind of sad for me that they left out some of his greatest achievements. They also had dopey Steven Kent on comparing the guy to the Shakespeare of the game industry, when what Yokoi should have been compared to is Albert Einstein. The entire technological side of the game industry is at a complete loss without Gunpei Yokoi. Everything we have seen since Yokoi's death has been simply evolutionary, slowly building on existing technologies. When Yokoi was alive we got revolutionary gaming advancements in very short periods of time. Yokoi was time after time able to produce incredibly creative hardware ideas that were based upon nothing anyone had ever seen before. And he was a damn good game creator too, Kid Icarus and Metroid being the prime examples. Those games were also the first games to use a save feature through passwords.Vibri said:
Even the Virtual Boy as much as they railed it on this Icons featured the first controller to have dual controls. It had 2 d-pads, now every controller since Virtual Boy has come to adopt 2 analog sticks as it's control method. And the visual principles of Virtual Boy, there is no doubt in my mind that that is the future of video games. Spatial 3D graphics is the next big revolution after 3D. I've seen bits and pieces of it at E3 each year and it's not like the cheesy stuff we know from the past. In the next 10 to 20 years it's going to take over.
They had several interviews from people in the industry where each one was making fun of how ridiculous the Virtual Boy was. Several people on Icons made fun of the device quite extensively. Obviously the exectution of the concept behind VB was absurd, but the concept itself was not nearly as silly as they made it out to be. The idea that we're going to seek to move interactive entertainment beyond the flat plane that it exists on now is an exceedingly profound and bold concept. Most gamers today still think it was just a dumb gimmicky idea that we got over, most gamers are wrong.Vibri said:
Alex Anderson
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Well, the topic of the show is the GameBoy, not Gumpei Yokoi himself. Anything else he did other than GameBoy is really irrelevant. I think the topic starter just put his name in to draw traffic and get the Nintendo drones creaming.
RiZ III said:
Since it was a failure, Nintendo made Gunpei basically stick with the failed system as punishment. At E3, he manned the VB section of the booth by himself. That led him to go start a new company, which would form with Bandai to create the Wonderswan. He also was not allowed to work on the N64 like Shigeru (his "apprentice") or any other bigshots.
RiZ III said:wow. rough. He was hit by a truck or something wasn't he? Poor guy. After all he contributed to Nintendo they were so harsh to him just because of one failure.
Yeah, well... Yamauchi was a brutal person. I really don't understand why people miss him. He was a genius during the 80s, but around 1996, he had completely lost it.