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the man who taught nintendo that cheap plastic beats fancy silicon, every time.
means gunpei yokoi was the nintendo engineer whose philosophy of lateral thinking with withered technology built the game boy, the d-pad, and the whole idea of toys that just work.
from joined nintendo in 1965 to maintain factory equipment, tinkered with a extending arm toy on his lunch break, and accidentally invented the company future when it became the ultra hand.
philosophykareta gijutsu no suihei shikou, mature tech used cleverly
d-padinvented for the 1982 game and watch
final projectthe virtual boy, his one infamous flop
deathdied in 1997 crossing a highway to inspect a car