Gunpei Yokoi
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Gunpei Yokoi, also spelled (September 10 1941–October 4 1997), was a long-time Nintendo employee, creator of the Game Boy, and producer of the long-running ''Metroid'' series.
Gunpei Yokoi began working at Nintendo in 1965, after graduating college with a degree in electronics from Doshisha University. Yokoi started out working on the assembly line for the Hanafuda cards as a maintenance engineer.
In 1970, Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo at the time, came to a hanafuda factory Yokoi was working at and took notice of a toy, an extending arm, which Yokoi made for his own amusement during spare time as the company's janitor and machine maintenance man. Yamauchi ordered Yokoi to develop it as a proper product for the Christmas rush. The Ultra Hand was a huge success, selling approximately 1.2 million units. Yokoi was soon moved from maintenance duty to product development. Yokoi went on to develop many other toys during Nintendo's toy era, including the Ten Billion Barrel...
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