Swan song.
With sales of just 3.5 million units, the Bandai WonderSwan can hardly be described as one of the most commercially successful handhelds of all time, but its significance in the history of video games goes beyond simple stats and figures; it was the last console to be designed by the legendary Gunpei Yokoi before his untimely death in 1997.
Yokoi joined Nintendo in 1965 as a maintenance engineer, but he soon became one of the company’s most important hires as he spearheaded its shift from hanafuda playing cards into toys and gadgets, with devices like the Ultra Hand and Love Tester generating impressive revenue for the Japanese giant. However, his Game & Watch LCD handhelds and Game Boy portable console would be even more successful, helping to establish Nintendo as one of the leading players in the world of gaming – before his stock took a nosedive following the release of the disastrous Virtual Boy in 1995.
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Swan song.
With sales of just 3.5 million units, the Bandai WonderSwan can hardly be described as one of the most commercially successful handhelds of all time, but its significance in the history of video games goes beyond simple stats and figures; it was the last console to be designed by the legendary Gunpei Yokoi before his untimely death in 1997.
Yokoi joined Nintendo in 1965 as a maintenance engineer, but he soon became one of the company’s most important hires as he spearheaded its shift from hanafuda playing cards into toys and gadgets, with devices like the Ultra Hand and Love Tester generating impressive revenue for the Japanese giant. However, his Game & Watch LCD handhelds and Game Boy portable console would be even more successful, helping to establish Nintendo as one of the leading players in the world of gaming – before his stock took a nosedive following the release of the disastrous Virtual Boy in 1995.
Read the full article on timeextension.com