>Gunpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei, 10 September 1941 – 4 October 1997), sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer. He was a long-time Nintendo employee, best known as creator of the Game & Watch handheld system, inventor of the "cross" shaped Control Pad, the original designer of the Game Boy, and producer of a few long-running and critically acclaimed video game franchises, such as Metroid and Kid Icarus.
What would he be doing right now if he hadn't been murdered?
His death was so obviously a hit ordered by Nintendo. How did the government not get involved when it was so obvious?
Cameron Long
The president back then, Hiroshi Yamauchi,was rumored to have connections with organized crime. He may have pulled strings.
Gavin Johnson
Reminder Super Metroid was only good because of him. Sakamoto was only drawing crateria layouts like a good boy.
Xavier Sullivan
It was hardly a rumor. It was an open secret.
Daniel Ward
>Durr there's no other reason someone who gets out of a car on the highway would get killed other than by a Yakuza hit
Samuel Brown
driver of the car that hit him was a confirmed yakuza member
Nathan White
Where was this confirmed?
Easton Miller
It's not exactly a rare form of hit, especially in East Asia. One car drives in front of the target and one car drives behind. Front car causes a rear-end collision; back car drives into the target as he gets out of the car.
Benjamin Richardson
Normies don't know about Nintendo's connections to the yakuza. They've made playing cards for them for AGES. And they helped strongarm vendors into selling their games over Sega's stuff. And not only did they order a hit on Gunpei Yokoi for defecting to a competitor, they also had Iwata poisoned with cancer in his sake drink during a meeting for the failure of the Wii U and refusing to go to mobile. It wasnt until he was at death's door that he signed the Dena deal. Yakuza heads were probably made their business was flopping due to his retardation.
Andrew Evans
occam's razor while an important tool is also actually a nearly perfect shield for the super rich and powerful and criminal because the "obvious and simple" reasoning for why some things happen makes so much more sense than organized crime hits and covering things up, so all that matters is just doing it right and then you can point at anyone thinking it stinks and just call them the good ol' FBI-created "conspiracy theorist"
Dominic King
>The president back then, Hiroshi Yamauchi,was rumored to have connections with organized crime The Yamauchi guys LOOK like mobsters. I guessed they had yakuza connections from looking at a single picture of them.
Camden Campbell
>Iwata was murdered by the Yakuza
That's bullshit but I believe it.
Ryder Morgan
>1997 is closer to 1941 than the present day holy shit
>gets into an vehicular accident involving a truck >fortunate enough to survive >get out of vehicle to see the damage >another car runs you over
Jaxson Davis
Folks like you truly need to kill yourself, Sakamoto being unfairly elevated in his role sometimes doesn't mean you need to massively over inflate Gunpei Yokoi's role
Jaxon Perez
>Folks Stopped reading right there
Alexander Carter
The government only does things when they can earn votes for the next elections.
Carson Martin
Murdered? By whom?
Charles Brown
>watch this youtube video I'm an adult, give me something to read instead
Carson Williams
>created virtual boy >it flops hard >leaves nintendo and goes to with with bandai on a competitor to the gameboy >dies
Nathaniel Richardson
You don't even need to watch, just listen while you do other things.
