Game Boy makes the toy hall of fame

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:26 pm

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plug ... me/1371311

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:54 pm

How big of a deal is this? I've never heard of the Toy Hall of Fame before.

Well, congrats to Gunpei's bones I guess.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:40 am

Johan_H wrote:Well, congrats to Gunpei's bones I guess.

That poor guy. He died quite tragically.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:31 am

snkcube wrote:
Johan_H wrote:Well, congrats to Gunpei's bones I guess.
That poor guy. He died quite tragically.

After being basically evicted from Nintendo for the Virtual Boy.

And his ghost is probably still haunting Bandai for fucking up the Wonderswan.

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:01 am

I've loved the Game Boy for pretty much as long as I can remember (the only gaming device I owned before the PS), and Wario Land is one of my favourite games for it, or any other machine. He's probably one of the people who's had the most indirect positive influence on my life.
So yeah, RIP and better luck in another timeline :'(

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:36 am

Johan_H wrote:I've loved the Game Boy for pretty much as long as I can remember (the only gaming device I owned before the PS), and Wario Land is one of my favourite games for it, or any other machine. He's probably one of the people who's had the most indirect positive influence on my life.
So yeah, RIP and better luck in another timeline :'(

Yokoi's not JUST the GameBoy.

Game&Watch(and by extension every NES-knockoff gamepad), Metroid, Shigeru Miyamoto...
Donkey Kong was Miyamoto's first game, and created under Yokoi's oversight... Wonder hwat arcade games Yokoi actually worked on. Pity they weren't credited properly.

Post by **grinvader** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:52 am

Super Metroid

'nuff said

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:58 am

what the gay?! the gameboy ranked up amongst alphabet blocks and play doh? what has the interweb come to?

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:49 pm

Gil_Hamilton wrote:Yokoi's not JUST the GameBoy.

Sure, but the Game Boy and Wario Land are the things he's directly responsible for that are closest to my <3

Louis Cypher · Post by **Louis Cypher** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:57 pm

PHoNyMiKe wrote:what the gay?! the gameboy ranked up amongst alphabet blocks and play doh? what has the interweb come to?

Two words: portable tetris.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:17 am

grinvader wrote:Super Metroid

'nuff said

Ironically, the first one he wasn't in direct control of.

He was busy with something else(Probably Wario Land 3. That or Virtual Boy stuff.), so he passed the producer hat on to Makoto Kanoh, a veteran of the first two games(one of five "designers" on Metroid 2, and assistant director+scenario designer on the original).

I think we can all agree SM was in good hands either way.