The modern industry can learn more than ever from Mr. Yokoi's philosophy of Lateral Thinking With Withered Technology. Video games sorely need more people of his creativity and ingenuity
The modern industry is built purely on money (considering how expensive and difficult it is to make current video games) Creativity and ingenuity are reserved for the indie market
The Wii could sort of be considered that same philosophy. They used almost the same hardware as the previous generation which was cheap and well-understood.
I would argue that this philosophy has lived on with Nintendo, with the DS, Wii, 3DS, and now the Switch. I'm glad to see the Switch doing so well, largely because it is so different and such a huge risk.
Wish this had been a bit later so 3ds could be mentioned. His dream became reality finally. Now we want hybrid to stick around and a better Swirch to come out.
I'm pretty sure he knows even still. And even though the 3DS didn't come out around the time of this episode's original broadcasting, it, too, will forever have a place in the hearts of gamers everywhere.
Still angry at Nintendo for treating Gunpei so badly after Virtual Boy failed. It wasn't his fault, it was Nintendo themselves for rushing out an unfinished product, to compete with the release of the PS1, since the N64 wasn't ready yet. The Virtual Boy was supposed to get color screens etc. Gunpei brought them a lot of success and money, with the Game & Watch and Game boy line, and then they just throw him under the bus, cause of their own mistake...
fun fact: nintendo had to shutdown virtual boy,so they started to fresh again. In 2011,nintendo wanted to make the same plan of virtual boy but they think big and made the 3ds....
We've come a long way since those times of the Nintendo Game Boy and when this documentary was made. Still I can say this is where handheld gaming got it's start and great documentary. When G4 used to be cool and all about the gamers.
i have now used my game boy on a regular basis for over 20 years. i dropped it a few dozen times -> no problem. dropped my HTC once -> display damaged beyond repair, not just the glas, but the whole thing, battery damaged beyond repair, side buttons missing, what the fuck
John Maksym I've dropped my Pocket a *few* times and it still functions 100% excepting a couple dead spots on the screen that were there when I got it.
RIP Gunpei Yokoi, thank u for my childhood P.S. Not gonna lie but the Wonderswan was an impressive console and it also inspired me to work on gaming hardware and the man influenced me to become an inventor
Gameboy color was the first game platform that was mine and not my Bro and sises. Oracle of ages, Pokemon yellow numerous Mario games. So many great memories on road trips.
We all know the car that hit Yokoi, someone from Nintendo was driving it because you just don't walk away from them. More proof comes when they found a cardboard cut out of the poison mushroom from Mario 2 in Yokoi pocket.
I disagree. I've never met a single person with any kind of vr thingy. I've never seen someone out in public with one of those headsets on. I don't care about vr whatsoever.
That was always an out in case the DS bombed. Even within Nintendo a lot of staff were not on board and felt the DS was the wrong direction and that they should stick to a straight Gameboy design. If the DS had failed they would have immediately regrouped and put out the next Gameboy.
Yep, remember the Game Boy Micro? Came out around the same time or shortly after the DS, and ended up being the last Game Boy. That was their in to continue the Game Boy line if the DS failed.
***** Gunpei starting working on the game and watch system(Which he latter adapted into the Gameboy) before Microvision was even released. On top of that calling the Gameboy a rip off of the Microvision is like calling the Boeing 747 a rip off of the Wright's plane.
***** I'm not butt hurt I'm just pointing to the fact that Milton Bradly had not release Microvision, when Gunpei started working on the game and watch, and he probably never even heard of it. In any case the Microvision was a poorly made machine with only 12 games. While novel and an interesting feat the Gameboy actually did revolution gaming. It's kinda like the Model T, sure there were cars before it, nobody bought an they were all shitty but they existed.
Project Atlantis was not the code name for the GBA Project Atlantis was a 32 bit handheld Nintendo was working on in the Mid 90's around the same time the N64 came out ultimately Nintendo thought it would be too Expensive to make so we got the 8 bit Gameboy Color instead how fitting What? don't Believe Me? Just Google Project Atlantis
The reason people liked playing Game Boy games on the Super Game Boy for SNES, is because playing on an actual T.V. screen looked 100 times better than the awful original Game Boy screen.
Pretty sure it was always G4. I just think this one looks different because it is a later season compared to most of the other Icons episodes on TH-cam.
Oh, I see the logo you are talking about. I think that was added by an uploader, or it was possibly from airing in another country. But in the US and Canada it only came on G4.
It was originally not suppose to, this video was made when Nintendo announced that the DS would be the third pillar hardware right behind the Game Boy Advance and GameCube. Unfortunately due to the DS success, it was right for them to give Game Boy the final farewell.
I don't think something like the Gameboy could work today. Obviously I don't mean the same tech, but how far behind the times it was when released, tech-wise. The Atari Lynx and Sega Game Gear were vastly superior systems (the Lynx was actually in the same ballpark as the Sega Genesis power-wise but didn't have the resolution to show it). It would almost be like a company releasing a handheld today about as powerful as the GBA with no backlit screen to compete and winning. Everyone has become so technology-obsessed it just couldn't happen.
dacypher22 The Switch worked. Hybrid portable system with lower res/less "sophisticated" guts than the other leading competitor systems/smartphones/tablets in the market. Outsold them all this year. I disagree. Nintendo DID do today's equivalent of the Gameboy. And it was a massive success.
Wish the new G4 had brought stuff like this back. Why hit the nostalgia bone to just let Indiana Black ruin your network. And your a fool if you don’t know it’s her faukt
There are 2 competitors who beat game boy. Android and IOS> not direct competitors but more people have smart phones than handheld devices. Also they are cheaper.
? There might be games on Android, but most of them are either ports of 10 year old games or sucky shitty games that have more ads than all of the london underground together.
+John Maksym Man, they are indeed more powerful, but they are not a console. And even if they were, a console which has no good games on it, always fails. (3DO, CDi, Atari Jaguar... not to talk about the '83 videogame crash). Power doesn't mean quality.
I love nintendo gameboy 😍😍😍😍,my First handheld videogame,the best vídeo ever made for the famoso portable system of the world ,REST IN PEACE GUNPEI YOKOI 😢😢😢
Happy 25th anniversary Game Boy. Ahh... the happy memories.
RIP Yokoi-San. Your influence is still felt today. God bless you sir.
30 years, you mean. Happy 30ty anniversary Game Boy.
wrong name Gunpei Yokoi
@@michael323217 who put the wrong name, did they delete their comment?
The modern industry can learn more than ever from Mr. Yokoi's philosophy of Lateral Thinking With Withered Technology. Video games sorely need more people of his creativity and ingenuity
The modern industry is built purely on money (considering how expensive and difficult it is to make current video games)
Creativity and ingenuity are reserved for the indie market
The Wii could sort of be considered that same philosophy. They used almost the same hardware as the previous generation which was cheap and well-understood.
leftyfourguns PREACH
I would argue that this philosophy has lived on with Nintendo, with the DS, Wii, 3DS, and now the Switch. I'm glad to see the Switch doing so well, largely because it is so different and such a huge risk.
Wish this had been a bit later so 3ds could be mentioned. His dream became reality finally. Now we want hybrid to stick around and a better Swirch to come out.
I'm pretty sure he knows even still. And even though the 3DS didn't come out around the time of this episode's original broadcasting, it, too, will forever have a place in the hearts of gamers everywhere.
3:41 Wow the DS and 3DS systems look alot like those Game & Watches. I guess that's where the inspiration for their design comes from.
Nappa The Saiyan You're absolutely right about that
Yokoi-san... I say thank you.
Because of Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo IS the handheld gaming market.
Gunpei Yokoi, Satoru Iwata... Thank you so much for making my life magical and teaching me to play and dream.
I'll never stop.
RIP Gunpei Yokoi.
Still angry at Nintendo for treating Gunpei so badly after Virtual Boy failed.
It wasn't his fault, it was Nintendo themselves for rushing out an unfinished product, to compete with the release of the PS1, since the N64 wasn't ready yet. The Virtual Boy was supposed to get color screens etc. Gunpei brought them a lot of success and money, with the Game & Watch and Game boy line, and then they just throw him under the bus, cause of their own mistake...
fun fact: nintendo had to shutdown virtual boy,so they started to fresh again.
In 2011,nintendo wanted to make the same plan of virtual boy but they think big and made the 3ds....
thanks for the g4, I used to watch Icons on G4 when I was 8 years old and it is cool.
Samuel Carrillo haha. I watched it when i was 30
How I miss these shows on G4. Couple a weeks ago Uverse just cancelled G4. Thank TH-cam for allowing these G4 shows
We've come a long way since those times of the Nintendo Game Boy and when this documentary was made. Still I can say this is where handheld gaming got it's start and great documentary. When G4 used to be cool and all about the gamers.
Wow who knew the Game and watch system would be an early model for the modern Nintendo ds.
Nintendo IS the handheld market.
Game Boy games may be small in size, but they can be just as fun as NES, Super NES or even N64 titles.
i have now used my game boy on a regular basis for over 20 years. i dropped it a few dozen times -> no problem. dropped my HTC once -> display damaged beyond repair, not just the glas, but the whole thing, battery damaged beyond repair, side buttons missing, what the fuck
+John Burns so true
John Maksym I've dropped my Pocket a *few* times and it still functions 100% excepting a couple dead spots on the screen that were there when I got it.
The reason why people loved the color Gameboy is that now they can have a favorite color for their system.
All this + their console stuff lead to the Switch. That is awesome.
Exactly
RIP Gunpei Yokoi, thank u for my childhood
P.S. Not gonna lie but the Wonderswan was an impressive console and it also inspired me to work on gaming hardware and the man influenced me to become an inventor
Gameboy color was the first game platform that was mine and not my Bro and sises. Oracle of ages, Pokemon yellow numerous Mario games. So many great memories on road trips.
I remember when the color gameboys came out, they advertised it in nintendo power comparing the colors to various barbecue condiments lmao!
The Switch is the perfect testament to this series.
All systems (handheld and consoles) should come with a free game
I absolutely agree
Brandon Martinez Same High five guys!
We are kind of seeing a return of pack-in games, even if they are just codes to download the game.
5:32 even back then, they used emulators to capture game footage.
They also used an emulator in the Pac-Man episode. They could have at least tried to crop out the use of a save state.
I'm so glad I got a new GameBoy SP. When my old one died with Kirby's Pinball, my heart almost cracked open...
We all know the car that hit Yokoi, someone from Nintendo was driving it because you just don't walk away from them. More proof comes when they found a cardboard cut out of the poison mushroom from Mario 2 in Yokoi pocket.
No proof.
You’re not funny. Don’t try to make light of the demise of a creative mind at Nintendo.
2:32 Who in the blue hell is "Yamaochi"?
I Think Nintendo Should Try Their Hand at VR Again,There's a Lot of Nintendo Games That I'd Love to Play in VR
Thanks
koisanjie Totally,It'd be Dumb of Nintendo to Not go For it
I disagree. I've never met a single person with any kind of vr thingy. I've never seen someone out in public with one of those headsets on. I don't care about vr whatsoever.
VR sucks.... they are doing great by staying away of that crap
"the ds is not a replacement for the gba. It's an interesting experiment"
this quote did not age well
I miss these times. TH-cam has created so many annoying video game historians
All for that sweet adsense money... the poison that killed YT
That guy known as Norm The Gaming Historian seems pretty cool...
The switch will conquer
nice crystal ball you got there.
"The DS is not a replacement for Gameboy." BULLSHIT >.>
That was always an out in case the DS bombed. Even within Nintendo a lot of staff were not on board and felt the DS was the wrong direction and that they should stick to a straight Gameboy design. If the DS had failed they would have immediately regrouped and put out the next Gameboy.
Yep, remember the Game Boy Micro? Came out around the same time or shortly after the DS, and ended up being the last Game Boy. That was their in to continue the Game Boy line if the DS failed.
He created the Game Boy and Metroid? Fucking genius!
And the D-Pad
mage davee And his inventions live on.
***** Gunpei starting working on the game and watch system(Which he latter adapted into the Gameboy) before Microvision was even released. On top of that calling the Gameboy a rip off of the Microvision is like calling the Boeing 747 a rip off of the Wright's plane.
***** I'm not butt hurt I'm just pointing to the fact that Milton Bradly had not release Microvision, when Gunpei started working on the game and watch, and he probably never even heard of it. In any case the Microvision was a poorly made machine with only 12 games. While novel and an interesting feat the Gameboy actually did revolution gaming. It's kinda like the Model T, sure there were cars before it, nobody bought an they were all shitty but they existed.
mage davee Haters gonna hate, Bruh.. Just ignore'em lol
>Yamowchi
lol.
In today's dollars the game boy cost around $326.74
“This is not a replacement for Gameboy”
The DS would go on to replace the gameboy
Project Atlantis was not the code name for the GBA Project Atlantis was a 32 bit handheld Nintendo was working on in the Mid 90's around the same time the N64 came out ultimately Nintendo thought it would be too Expensive to make so we got the 8 bit Gameboy Color instead how fitting What? don't Believe Me? Just Google Project Atlantis
The reason people liked playing Game Boy games on the Super Game Boy for SNES, is because playing on an actual T.V. screen looked 100 times better than the awful original Game Boy screen.
I'm shocked they didnt make one of pokemon.
It's "Yah-Mah-Oo-Chee"
Not "Yah-mow-chee"
Lynx and Game Gear were more powerful, but power never wins, not back then and not now.
6:34-6:40 Huh, so it turns out that Gameboy started out *MORE* expensive than Game Gear
yo castlevania circle of the moon is my favorite castlevania
he did not get a window seat....the virtual boy was meant to be a parting gift for yokoi because he wanted to retire.
actually...this is not 100% accurate....
anyone know what action Game that is at 18;55?
what station is this icons episode on?
+ccateni WAN G4 before the channel became crap.
No the other station this is on, because it doesn't look like G4.
Pretty sure it was always G4. I just think this one looks different because it is a later season compared to most of the other Icons episodes on TH-cam.
none. It was a G4 exclusive program.
Oh, I see the logo you are talking about. I think that was added by an uploader, or it was possibly from airing in another country. But in the US and Canada it only came on G4.
19:32 DS is a replacement, though GBA did get smaller with the micro.
It was originally not suppose to, this video was made when Nintendo announced that the DS would be the third pillar hardware right behind the Game Boy Advance and GameCube. Unfortunately due to the DS success, it was right for them to give Game Boy the final farewell.
Lol are you just reuploading the same videos?
why super game boy? dont have to pay for batteries when you play on tv. Pokemon would kill batteries.
anyone know what game that is at 18;55?
I don't think something like the Gameboy could work today. Obviously I don't mean the same tech, but how far behind the times it was when released, tech-wise. The Atari Lynx and Sega Game Gear were vastly superior systems (the Lynx was actually in the same ballpark as the Sega Genesis power-wise but didn't have the resolution to show it). It would almost be like a company releasing a handheld today about as powerful as the GBA with no backlit screen to compete and winning. Everyone has become so technology-obsessed it just couldn't happen.
dacypher22 The Switch worked. Hybrid portable system with lower res/less "sophisticated" guts than the other leading competitor systems/smartphones/tablets in the market. Outsold them all this year.
I disagree. Nintendo DID do today's equivalent of the Gameboy. And it was a massive success.
Screw the 3DS. Bring back the Game Boy! Call it the HD Boy!
DanTheMan33088 hell no
Wish the new G4 had brought stuff like this back. Why hit the nostalgia bone to just let Indiana Black ruin your network. And your a fool if you don’t know it’s her faukt
anybody else find some of the music and steven l kent annoying?
There are 2 competitors who beat game boy. Android and IOS> not direct competitors but more people have smart phones than handheld devices. Also they are cheaper.
+Xavier Grabulosa Ribot 60usd phone can play both 3d and 2d games. Also it can emulate 's and gba games.
? There might be games on Android, but most of them are either ports of 10 year old games or sucky shitty games that have more ads than all of the london underground together.
+Xavier Grabulosa Ribot true but that doesn't negate the fact
+John Maksym Man, they are indeed more powerful, but they are not a console. And even if they were, a console which has no good games on it, always fails. (3DO, CDi, Atari Jaguar... not to talk about the '83 videogame crash). Power doesn't mean quality.
+Xavier Grabulosa Ribot kind of reminds of the pc. It was just an office device than it out did the concoles.
Japan never took over the world.
The PS2 outsold the gameboy. In terms of most units ever sold in the history of gaming consoles, the PS2 is first and the gameboy is second
I love nintendo gameboy 😍😍😍😍,my First handheld videogame,the best vídeo ever made for the famoso portable system of the world ,REST IN PEACE GUNPEI YOKOI 😢😢😢
Nintendo switch family continues to legacy of Nintendo hanhelds since game & watch . 😎😎