“It was impossible for Tecmo to release hardware”.
Nearly two years before the release of the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989, the Ninja Gaiden and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile director Hideo Yoshizawa came up with his own pitch for what the future of handheld gaming might look like, and it’s pretty remarkable how closely it resembles the Nintendo device that would end up taking the world by storm.
Yoshizawa shared the illustration of the device, which he referred to as the “Pocket TV Game”, on Twitter/X last month on May 27th, 2026, writing that he found the document while tidying his room and that it was among a bunch of other materials from his time at Tecmo.
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“It was impossible for Tecmo to release hardware”.
Nearly two years before the release of the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989, the Ninja Gaiden and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile director Hideo Yoshizawa came up with his own pitch for what the future of handheld gaming might look like, and it’s pretty remarkable how closely it resembles the Nintendo device that would end up taking the world by storm.
Yoshizawa shared the illustration of the device, which he referred to as the “Pocket TV Game”, on Twitter/X last month on May 27th, 2026, writing that he found the document while tidying his room and that it was among a bunch of other materials from his time at Tecmo.
Read the full article on timeextension.com