Episode 351: Gunpei Yokoi (Pt. 2) (Patreon)

Exactly 10 episodes after the first part of this conversation, here is the second. I'm making a serious effort this year to be timely with multi-part topics like this—though of course the best-laid plans and all that. At least it's going well so far! (Less than two weeks into the year.)

Matt Alt, Bill Mudron, and I reconvene for another conversation about the work of Gunpei Yokoi, which ended last time around before we even got to his video game stuff, somehow. This time, it's all video games. Perhaps inevitably, the conversation expands beyond Yokoi's work alone to the larger context of Nintendo's history, and that of video games at large, and (given Matt's expertise) how it all lines up with Japan's growth in the latter 20th Century. There's going to be a bit of overlap between the chat in this episode and the upcoming Famicom Disk System episode, but that's history, baby!

Description: Jeremy Parish, Matt Alt, and Bill Mudron conclude their discussion of the life and times of Gunpei Yokoi (and the larger history of video games) by looking back at the inventions he helped spearhead, from Nintendo's Game & Watch to Bandai's WonderSwan. Art by Greg Melo. Edits by Greg Leahy.