Nintendo: The Company and its Founders - Sharyland ISD
Nintendo: The Company and its Founders - Sharyland ISD
Nintendo: The Company and its Founders - Sharyland ISD
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NINTENDO<br />
YOKOI’S LEGENDARY<br />
INSPIRATION<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a legend in the gaming<br />
world about how the <strong>Nintendo</strong><br />
Game <strong>and</strong> Watch came about.<br />
<strong>The</strong> legend says that while<br />
traveling on the train from<br />
Kyoto one day, Yokoi noticed a<br />
bored businessman entertaining<br />
himself with the buttons<br />
<strong>and</strong> lights on his h<strong>and</strong>held<br />
calculator. This sparked an<br />
idea. Yokoi soon developed<br />
a h<strong>and</strong>held version of video<br />
game systems. It began with<br />
the Game <strong>and</strong> Watch in 1980,<br />
which evolved into the Game<br />
Boy in 1989.<br />
allowed players to enjoy killing a<br />
little time without losing track of it<br />
entirely.<br />
At first, the Game <strong>and</strong> Watch<br />
h<strong>and</strong>held system was extremely<br />
simple. It had one button for the<br />
clock display, <strong>and</strong> two buttons<br />
for Game A <strong>and</strong> Game B. Game<br />
A was easier than Game B. This<br />
quickly evolved into two screens of<br />
equal size, <strong>and</strong> a more interesting<br />
variety of games <strong>and</strong> skill levels.<br />
<strong>The</strong> product caught on quickly,<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>Nintendo</strong> was ready to exp<strong>and</strong><br />
again with this new success.<br />
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