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Gunpei Yokoi

1941 - 1997

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Gunpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei; 10 September 1941 – 4 October 1997), sometimes transliterated as Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese toy maker and video game designer. As a long-time Nintendo employee, he was 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gunpei Yokoi is the 10th most popular game designer (down from 7th in 2019), the 636th most popular biography from Japan (down from 424th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 10 out of 77. Before him are Markus Persson, Hideo Kojima, Ralph H. Baer, Jeff Kinney, Alexey Pajitnov, and Satoru Iwata. After him are Gabe Newell, Toru Iwatani, John Carmack, Satoshi Tajiri, Sid Meier, and Todd Howard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 168. Before him are Sergio Oliva, David Crosby, George Lakoff, Ron Brown, Takayuki Kuwata, and Fabio Testi. After him are Mirosław Hermaszewski, Geoff Hurst, Philippe Honoré, Raúl Ruiz, Pak Seung-zin, and Richard Holbrooke. Among people deceased in 1997, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 89. Before him are Edward Mulhare, Samuel Fuller, Manfred von Ardenne, Kunihiko Kodaira, Son Sen, and Jean Françaix. After him are Jacinto Quincoces, Giuseppe De Santis, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Francisco Aramburu, François Furet, and Martin Schwarzschild.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 636 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshida Shōin (1830), Takayuki Kuwata (1941), Kisho Kurokawa (1934), Yoshitoshi (1839), Shunryū Suzuki (1904), and Hidemaro Watanabe (1924). After him are Masaoka Shiki (1867), Emperor Nijō (1143), Chūya Nakahara (1907), Sen Katayama (1859), Yoshitada Yamaguchi (1944), and Yoshiichi Watanabe (1954).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 4. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Hideo Kojima (1963), and Satoru Iwata (1959). After him are Toru Iwatani (1955), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Shinji Mikami (1965), Naoto Ohshima (1964), and Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974).

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