Maybe the Wonderswan handhelds would've made it overseas as opposed to my having had to import one. lol Seriously, who knows. If he still worked for Nintendo, maybe the Wii would've been better in the sense that it would've had a design where you can do motion-play and non-motion as opposed to trying to be gimmicky and trying to use motion controls with pretty much a majority of the games outside of the older games you can dl through Virtual Wii.
referral madness Eh......it was the 90s. everyone had high hopes for everything. But still............thanks to this failure we got stuff like the GBC and what not.
+referral madness No, it was not a fuck up because Nintendo pushed it to be in the state that it is now. Unfinished pretty much. So really, wasn't entirely his doing.
+referral madness A fuck up in Nintendo's part, not Yokoi's. Like forcefully presenting an unfinished project at school because your partner said so and then taking the blame for it.
That ended on such a downward note. I found it fascinating to see how innovative and resourceful Yokoi was, the man was a true genius. The concept of "lateral thinking of withered technology" so eloquently summarizes pragmatism and resourcefulness, it's a philosophy - it's clear to see he was a man of extreme talent from humble beginnings.
JIMBOTHY beautifully said and articulated in a way, few could ever hope to match. You dear sir have a talent for writing, please don't let it go to waste.
Could you imagine that guy being all super old now and maybe (doubtful) hearing about this and just looking at the Nintendo main building and thinking "I INSPIRED that."
***** that depends on whether they actually scare you or not (they don't scare me personally). also, that comment i posted was supposed to point out the grim adventures of billy and mandy reference in the comment i replied to. XD
FynalZ0ne The old ones perhaps like the 3310 which still uses to be MY phone of choice (FUCK ANDROID, FUCK IPHONE, FUCK LUMIA!), the newer ones not so much. I saw it just past week when my department chef showed his wife's Lumia phone which fall to the ground and had a defective display. Good luck one of the trainee's wanted to get rid of hers in trade for an iPhone thus my chef could buy it but still... those new dumbphones aren't anywhere near as rock solid as old hardware.
It does work! Really, is it worth a lot? It was still in the original box too, when i found it in the attic... It was opened though but my mother kept the box.
Ahh yes, this is where I got my first degree on the Gameboy, I got my masters on the Gameboy color and eventually got my PhD on the GBA, good times indeed.
I fucking love my Gamboy even if its a Gameboy advance i love it. its survived years and still works even after being dropped a bunch of times and the Batteries rarely run out which makes it fun to play during school. fucking love nintendo
lol. yeah i fucked it up i have a gameboy colour not a gameboy advance XD i just got it mixed up cuze i can play a gameboy advance game on my gamemoy XD
I wonder why that first Virtual Boy design got scrapped. It looks like it would have been a lot less uncomfortable on the player's neck, and it actually looks cooler than the bipod design (imo at least). It wouldn't have solved any of the photosensitivity-related issues, of course.
They also could've scrapped the straps for the virtual boy due to it be front heavy and would have to be held up by a stand, so that could be why. (I don't know the weight of the virtual boy. This is just a guess.)
its so funny how people think Nintendo is horrible when without them not only would there not be so much of the things we call normal in games today but they were ultimately what inspired companies to enter the gaming world with their success
I reckon mankind would still be as technologically advanced today without the invention of the Gameboy. Maybe gaming would be more advanced. Certainly though with today's technology, Handheld gaming would still be present. You can find examples on the net of old gaming machines being used to a modern potential. Maybe the Gameboy, other old consoles and industry standards did actually slow the gaming industry and capability of machines.
4:09 NO. It was Hyundai who sold Nintendo games in behalf of Nintendo. Samsung sold Sega games and its gaming system. After Hyundai Electronics decided to discontinue selling Nontendo products a company named Daewon started to import games and the system directly from Nintendo of Japan, until Nintendo finally decided to enter the Korean market around 2007. And I can't believe that no Korean actually pointed this out.
The reason why the Game Boy worked when it did over the higher technology systems, was because kids weren't spoiled about graphics. Now most gamers are overly whiny about graphics over gameplay.
Agreed. I think the Dreamcast had a similar problem. Good game library, great tech, but in that console's case, the tech was too pricey at the time, so it failed. Then the PS2 came out, and we all know how that went.
JJAB91 "Too ambitious for its time, the technology required simply didn't exist yet" is the best way to sum up Nintendo's entire lifespan and achievements.
I played the hell out of mine when i was like 5 (played the eff out of wario land and mario tennis) and i don't remember any nausea. then again i also liked to eat brussle sprouts and asparagus for as long as i remembered so i probably had a stronger stomach as a kid.
tandem1963 technically yes but as you can see the graphical detail wasnt that great either and may very well have contributed to its failure... 3d gaming does exist cough 3ds cough, and does better than the virtual boy ever did... Hardware improvements i say.
The reason the Virtual Boy failed because it wasn't a complete system. Nintendo wanted to move the development staff to the n64 team and the Virtual boy was rushed
Geek from The inter-nate That's a load of crap, very few actually get headaches while playing, and it's mostly due to an improperly focused system. In fact, the Virtual Boy could help exercise your eyes and can improve your vision. Developers were even looking at building special applications for doing this before the system was cancelled. And don't give me that crap about being only Red killed it, the Gameboy pocket was released after the VB, with a way worse screen, and everyone loved it. I think it failed because of terrible marketing, and the anti-social nature of playing the system. If they actually had released the link cable alongside it with some cool 2 player games that properly took advantage of the systems strengths it could have been a much different story.
I like handhelds better than consoles today because of games, cheap price, portability and did I mention games? Modern handhelds today have backlit and 3d graphics. Nuff for me! I'm probably a rare kind of gamer in the west but in Japan this is common
Surprised you didn't mention the fact that Yokoi was actually murdered via a Yakuza assassination plot masterminded by the chairman of Nintendo at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi.
Yokoi also created Wario. And thanks to Miyamoto's stubbornness with things not created by him, we will never have a proper Wario Land/World sequel ever.
It wasn't that long ago that we got a Wario Land game for the Wii, but yeah, it would be nice if we got another Wario game that's not Wario Ware. I used to dream about getting another Mario platformer game where Wario is a playable character, but... that dream is a bit dead now.
To be fair, the concept of Wario was made by Yokoi, but Wario himself was designed by Hiroji Kiyotake. I can't find info on who actually designed Daisy, but since Yokoi created Super Mario Land as well, her creation could be credited to him as well.
I use to own a GameBoy Nintendo has been a huge part of my life first I had a GameBoy and then later on me and my family had a N64 I use to have a Nintendo 3DS XL (I lost it) and now I have a Wii.
Hm, I wonder... If they went with the "strap on goggle" design for the Virtual Boy and maybe added an option to turn the 3D off, maybe it wouldn't have been such a failure...
Anddo Nah, just because you can turn off 3D on the 3DS it isn't a DS. I thought that it would have been a good idea to make 3D optional so that people who get sick from 3D could still have used the console.
CoxTH Not the same analogy. The 3DS without the 3D still has the superior technology. The Virtual Boy used the same architecture as the Game Boy, the only differing element was the 3D and its red tint.
Anddo game boy had a 8bit 4.2 MHz processor and virtual boy had a 32bit 20MHz processor. Not the same architecture at all. Virtual boy may be crap, but in what world a game boy would be able to move a game like Red Alarm?
Wait wait wait... A Game Boy, survived a EXPLOSION, during the Gulf War? And it still functions perfectly, just the cosmetics and such is just morphed? ...HOLY FUCKING CEREAL CRUMBS, THAT GAME BOY MUST HAVE BEEN AN OX IN DISGUISE! I guess this just helps the thought about older consoles being more durable and less fragile to be true. "You could drop a TV on a N64 and it would be fine" a friend of mine says...
Nintendo has always lived 1 generation before their time. (Gameboy being behind sega technology and atari) yet. theyve always come on top. Wii U will be fine
Narwhal King It wasn't that the virtual boy was bad. I own one and it was amazing at the time. Had they tested how the display when combined with the positioning of the head worked together prior to release, it may've been a success. Or if they had just released the head mounted version instead.
***** Yes, the Virtual Boy was a poorly system, but it's really also a tragic one. It was - and you can really see this in it's design and how it's launch was handled - an incomplete system that was pushed out before it was read, and really should have been a prototype. There's even evidence the system had been intended to at least be head worn, but instead was rushed out with a clumsy stand. It's a shame, because some of the games on it, like Teleroboxer and Warioland, were actually -very- good games. Not that all of it's games were, because Waterworld was one of the most phenomenal pieces of garbage ever coded. In the end, whatever the reason, the Virtual Boy ended it's life as a mistake. One to be learned from. No console/game company is without failures, if they've been around for any length of time.
There were multiple ones, basically games similar to what you would find on a Magnavox Odyssey (if you don't know what it is just Google). The most famous of these were Pong, also called Color TV-15
I've always loved old games, especially the ones from Nintendo. So one day, my day bought me a Game Boy and three games for it, Tetris, Golf and Kirby's Dream Land. I owed him 1200 crowns (the Swedish currency) but it was worth it. Since that day, I always played on it, even in School (but only at the breaks). So one day, my math teacher gave me 3 games for my Game Boy, Sneaky Snakes, Donkey Kong Land and Super Mario Land. She told me it brought her back to so many memories, and she didn't need those games anymore anyways. Best math teacher ever. And when the Christmas came, I got two new games I always wanted for my Game Boy, Pokemon Red and Kirby's Dream Land 2. About half a month later, I went to London and bought 7 new games, Motocross Maniacs, Duck Tales 2, Mortal Combat II, Street Fighter 2, The Amazing Spiderman, Tetris 2 and Solar Striker, for only 40 pounds, which equals about 500 crowns. That's the history of my Game Boy.
I had a Game Boy Camera when it came out. I got the Game Boy banned entirely at my school because I took a photo of a kid and stamped a big nose on him and then showed it to him at recess. He told the teacher on me :( That was a mistake.
I still call my handheld console a gameboy.. Its a habit I cant break. First I had 4 different game boys and then suddenly ''DS''? NOP! ITS A GAME BOY! Ill never stop calling my 3DS a game boy Q_Q
***** how I see it is that it's like calling your motorcycle a bike. Oh, and did you know that the DS wasn't called something with the word "gameboy" in it because they were afraid that it would bring more shame to the name? By the way, as a kid who grew up with a dad that does that kind of stuff all the time, keep it up! It really prepares them for what they will face in their everyday lives.
I bring my old GBA SP with me everywhere, and all the clueless kids around me say, "Hey a DS!" And I always explain that DS stands for dual screen and let them work that out.
Wait, you said that the Korean embargo relicenses of Nintendo were made by Samsung? I could have sworn it was Hyundai that released the "Comboy" series....?
The last Gunpei Yokoi ever produced is my favorite Nintendo game ever, which is Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, which was released exclusively in Japan in 1996.
5:05 "You are charged with sexually abusing a 10-year old boy. What do you say in your defense?" "He had a Game boy, your honor. WITH A CAMERA! There's no way I could've resisted him!"
no bc if you look closely at the ps controller they do not have the same configuration as the nentendo d pad. the ps controller has lil arrow heads that point inward and the centers never touch. nintendo has an actual cross where all the directions touch. microsoft had lots of trouble finding a suitable d pad on their controllers... if you remember the 360 had a horrible d pad and that was a major flaw of the controller. this wasnt bc microsoft had bad designers but because Nintendo wouldnt license their tech over to microsoft. i am not exactly sure why the xbox one has a proper d pad now but they may have came to an agreement with nintendo or possibly tweaked the design ever so slightly so that it doesnt imfringe on nintendo's tech. also, if you remember, half way thru the life cycle of the 360 ms released a controller where the dpad did some kind of twisty motion which was sopposed to alleviate the problems with the original 360's dpad suckiness and did not infringe on nintendos tech. sooooo.... your answer in a nutshell... no they do not have to pay bc they all use slightly different configurations (unless, MS started payin nintendo for the rights on their new xbox one controllers) /rant
Kevin Clarke the xbox one dpad is just a complete copy from nintendo's modern dpad design, so maybe nintendo can sue microsoft and win... I'd love to see that.
gutts10 Actually I'm pretty sure the cross d-pad design is on the Xbox One controller now because the patent already ran out. There was a controller that did have the cross design: The Dreamcast controller, but that's because the internal part of the d-pad was designed differently than Nintendo's design.
You've dun goofed on a fact there, guys. Actually, it wasn't Samsung, but Hyundai, who sold the mini Comboy. Same with the Comboy (NES) and the Super Comboy (Super Nintendo). Samsung only sold Sega-branded consoles in S. Korea.
Gunpei Yokoi died in 1997? That was the year I first played the Game Boy, and I never realised... A sad coincidence, but it makes me appreciate his creation even more. The Game Boy was the first game console I ever played, without it I wouldn't have got into gaming period.
+A Shimonek The NX will be the return of Cartridges (SD cards though this time). They are faster and can reduce costs for small games (if your game is only 8GB big then you only ship it in 8GB sd card. No reason to ship it in a 50GB blu ray disc, thus reducing costs and helps indie game companies ship their games physically. Plus SD cards currently have faster read times than blu ray discs
Furil: Mommy? Lip: What is it, sweetie? Furil: Do I have... a Dad? Somewhere? Lip: ...kind of... you used to... Furil: Did something happen to him? Lip: ...(Tears up)... yes... something very bad... something hit him really hard... he never woke up... Furil: ...you mean... he’s dead? Lip: (Covers her face and begins to sob) ...yes, sweetheart... he’s dead... Furil: (Tears up) ...Mommy, don’t cry... Rest In Peace, Gunpei Yokoi. (Not only did Gunpei create the Game Boy, he also created a fantastic puzzle game known as Panel De Pon. The characters in this brief story come from Panel De Pon. It’s now available via the Nintendo Switch Online service if you want to play it.)
We forgot one fact: after 25 years the Game Boy is still freaking awesome!
hi dude
It's funny that the comment stating that it's awesome that you did the voiceover has more points than you.
joshua davies Hey!
Vsauce you are so cool!!!
Tristan Alexander Punctuation is a good thing dude.
3:54 The Gameboy: survives an explosion
The Xbox: Red Rings on its own.
Is it a coinsidence that a shitty console gets damaged so quickly?
Knackracker Dilek How's the XBox a shitty console?
the older ones do but the new ones dont. hell i have a 6 year old xbox and i never got a rrod
Beyond Big Boss I had 4 xb360 consoles and all of them got a red ring, shitty console is shitty.
passthetoiletpaper Oh well. It sold well and is popular, doesn't sound too shitty to me.
I wonder what could have happened to the gaming scene if Gunpei wasn't taken by that tragic accident. :(
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There would probably be another console manufacturer right now.
The idea for the Wii would have been burnt in a fire.....
Maybe the Wonderswan handhelds would've made it overseas as opposed to my having had to import one. lol
Seriously, who knows. If he still worked for Nintendo, maybe the Wii would've been better in the sense that it would've had a design where you can do motion-play and non-motion as opposed to trying to be gimmicky and trying to use motion controls with pretty much a majority of the games outside of the older games you can dl through Virtual Wii.
#RIPGunpeiYokoi
Genius that man was.
He made an object smaller than a calculator.
And it Survived a BLAST. TO THE FACE
referral madness What's that?
It's a myth.
It doesn't exist.
Jokes aside. No one is perfect
referral madness Eh......it was the 90s.
everyone had high hopes for everything.
But still............thanks to this failure we got stuff like the GBC and what not.
+referral madness No, it was not a fuck up because Nintendo pushed it to be in the state that it is now.
Unfinished pretty much. So really, wasn't entirely his doing.
+referral madness A fuck up in Nintendo's part, not Yokoi's.
Like forcefully presenting an unfinished project at school because your partner said so and then taking the blame for it.
millieman76 Eh, let bygones be bygones. Hopefully, nintendo won't fuck up anymore........
That ended on such a downward note. I found it fascinating to see how innovative and resourceful Yokoi was, the man was a true genius. The concept of "lateral thinking of withered technology" so eloquently summarizes pragmatism and resourcefulness, it's a philosophy - it's clear to see he was a man of extreme talent from humble beginnings.
I never knew you could be serious
JIMBOTHY beautifully said and articulated in a way, few could ever hope to match. You dear sir have a talent for writing, please don't let it go to waste.
all hail the virtual boy
@@dededesgustingtkemylife4825 virtual boy 2024!
THANK YOU RANDOM GUY ON THE BUS WHO SMASHED BUTTONS ON A CALCULATOR
THANKS YOU.
Gotta love people like him...i wonder where is he now.
Kutao Izumi Probably kicking himself that he didn't come up with the gameboy.
TeamkillerHenry To be fair, he probably didn't work for the VG industry.
Could you imagine that guy being all super old now and maybe (doubtful) hearing about this and just looking at the Nintendo main building and thinking "I INSPIRED that."
Nekufan1000000 I wonder if i ever inspired someone? I guess, we'll never know...
Man if only I had a Gameboy Camera when I was a kid, I would have gotten all the ladies.
Thank yourself you never own that, trust me. You won't like it.
***** DESTROY US ALL!!!! DESTROY US ALL!!!
DESTROY US ALL!!!
you believe in that yourself
***** the clowns aren't evil, billy XD
***** that depends on whether they actually scare you or not (they don't scare me personally). also, that comment i posted was supposed to point out the grim adventures of billy and mandy reference in the comment i replied to. XD
The Game Boy survived an explosion? Face it. The system's indestructible.
Even worse than those old Nokia phones.
Back when hardware was built to last....
Zim Roxo Nokias still are.
FynalZ0ne Nokia is the rare exception. Those things have to be crafted within the flames or mordor to be so strong
FynalZ0ne The old ones perhaps like the 3310 which still uses to be MY phone of choice (FUCK ANDROID, FUCK IPHONE, FUCK LUMIA!), the newer ones not so much.
I saw it just past week when my department chef showed his wife's Lumia phone which fall to the ground and had a defective display.
Good luck one of the trainee's wanted to get rid of hers in trade for an iPhone thus my chef could buy it but still... those new dumbphones aren't anywhere near as rock solid as old hardware.
1:15 It's very important to show a picture in case someone forgot what a calculator looms like
XD
I always forget what a calculator looms like
+ky xD
+Haakon Nikolaisen I have never seen a calculator looms before.
+Haakon Nikolaisen And since we know what a Gameboy looks like we might as well not show that in the video either, right?
Saw the tomodachi life "ALL HAIL VIRTUAL BOY" thing and burst out laughing.
IT STILL LIVES
I've only ever seen that dream in-game ONCE.
I found my mothers old donkey kong game and watch in the attic yesterday...My mother nearly cried...
Woah Epic
I still have my mums GameBoy pocket.
:)
Does it still work? I can understand if you want to keep it but those things are worth money.
It does work! Really, is it worth a lot? It was still in the original box too, when i found it in the attic... It was opened though but my mother kept the box.
Ahh yes, this is where I got my first degree on the Gameboy, I got my masters on the Gameboy color and eventually got my PhD on the GBA, good times indeed.
This is the channel where I got my Master’s in Master System
@@pinball-wizard :P
So, if it wasn't for a random guy in a train playing with his calculator, the gameboy wouldn't exist.......wow.
Probably something similar would of happened.
That guy must've been real narccicistic, yes i cant spell, after learning the story
Or Game and Watch or DS, Maybe even the switch.
Most of nintendo and videogames wouldn't exist
3:44
Everyone is always talking about the gameboy surviving a bomb but they never care about the soldier that died
RIP American soldier😢
I fucking love my Gamboy even if its a Gameboy advance i love it. its survived years and still works even after being dropped a bunch of times and the Batteries rarely run out which makes it fun to play during school. fucking love nintendo
+Silentwolf10uk I have a GBA and its battery exploded 2 times in the past few months. Yay.
lol. yeah i fucked it up i have a gameboy colour not a gameboy advance XD i just got it mixed up cuze i can play a gameboy advance game on my gamemoy XD
Don't even try breaking a gameboy, they are too strong to be broken.
(And if you break one you're just wasting money and precious gaming devices.)
The nokia of vidya.
Yup. I couldn't even open it. Even with a hammer.
Troll4ever31 ._. I want to see a Gameboy vs Nokia
your fucking everywhere
Derp Herp Who, me? Yeah I know :P
I wonder why that first Virtual Boy design got scrapped. It looks like it would have been a lot less uncomfortable on the player's neck, and it actually looks cooler than the bipod design (imo at least). It wouldn't have solved any of the photosensitivity-related issues, of course.
They also could've scrapped the straps for the virtual boy due to it be front heavy and would have to be held up by a stand, so that could be why. (I don't know the weight of the virtual boy. This is just a guess.)
5:03 Are we supposed to infer that the kid got laid?
It's like in real life. You show them your shitty Game Boy camera, and they fuck you like there's no tomorrow. Didn't you know?
Gameboy Camera was like the Old Spice of that generation... Simple logic really
its so funny how people think Nintendo is horrible when without them not only would there not be so much of the things we call normal in games today but they were ultimately what inspired companies to enter the gaming world with their success
without nintendo the gameing indestrey would have disapered
It is possible for something that was once great to become mediocre. I don't really have a personal opinion on Nintendo, but it's just a thought.
sorry for my engrish
yeah been working on my gramer its what i struggle with the most
I reckon mankind would still be as technologically advanced today without the invention of the Gameboy. Maybe gaming would be more advanced. Certainly though with today's technology, Handheld gaming would still be present.
You can find examples on the net of old gaming machines being used to a modern potential. Maybe the Gameboy, other old consoles and industry standards did actually slow the gaming industry and capability of machines.
This is amazing :)
Only ten likes after 6 years?!?!?!
My man Wood
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Your swith videos are more amazing
Rest in Peace Gunpei Yokoi, a true genius of the gaming and electronics industries.
4:09 NO. It was Hyundai who sold Nintendo games in behalf of Nintendo. Samsung sold Sega games and its gaming system. After Hyundai Electronics decided to discontinue selling Nontendo products a company named Daewon started to import games and the system directly from Nintendo of Japan, until Nintendo finally decided to enter the Korean market around 2007.
And I can't believe that no Korean actually pointed this out.
Oh boy, I like to game
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I'm still annoyed by the fact that I never had a Gameboy Camera/Printer while growing up :P
I'm sure those who actually had one still have nightmares of strange men in dark abysses, screaming "WHAT ARE YOU RUNNING FROM?"
***** I found it on accident by hitting run
that gameboy belongs in a international space museum, if there already isn't a museum for that.
The reason why the Game Boy worked when it did over the higher technology systems, was because kids weren't spoiled about graphics. Now most gamers are overly whiny about graphics over gameplay.
Thank you Yokoi! Handheld gaming has come a long way since then and, quite frankly, it's more engaging and interesting than the consoles today.
It's a shame that the Virtual Boy failed. It was an interesting idea, but badly executed.
It was simply too ambitious for it's time. The technology required simply didn't exist yet.
Agreed. I think the Dreamcast had a similar problem. Good game library, great tech, but in that console's case, the tech was too pricey at the time, so it failed. Then the PS2 came out, and we all know how that went.
The retail version of it is said to be just a late prototype that Nintendo rushed to release according to many rumors surrounding its creation.
I have mine tucked away with the good games waiting to be plyed again, all alone and sad wishing it had a friend :`^(
JJAB91
"Too ambitious for its time, the technology required simply didn't exist yet" is the best way to sum up Nintendo's entire lifespan and achievements.
You don't mess with a GameBoy... those things are invincible.
So what would you get if you crossed a Game Boy with a Nokia phone?
WAITWAITWAIT...
A Gameboy survived a bombing?
I might be that guy who presses calculator buttons to pass time.
M Bison OF COURSE!!
SingingGamingPhysics You practically invented handheld gaming.
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Wonder if the Virtual Boy would of done any better if they just had kept the head strap :/
no
Not a chance
It definitely would've.
It would have done a little better, just a little.
I played the hell out of mine when i was like 5 (played the eff out of wario land and mario tennis) and i don't remember any nausea. then again i also liked to eat brussle sprouts and asparagus for as long as i remembered so i probably had a stronger stomach as a kid.
virtual boy + headstrap = 90's oculus rift
Gr8 b8 m8 r8 8/8
That's what I thought! And I think people still get headaches and nausea from it.
tandem1963 lol so true
tandem1963 technically yes but as you can see the graphical detail wasnt that great either and may very well have contributed to its failure... 3d gaming does exist cough 3ds cough, and does better than the virtual boy ever did...
Hardware improvements i say.
Gameboy should have recived a nobel award, for being a total survivor to the Gulf war attacks.
That's not how nobel prizes get awarded.
If anything it should've gotten a Purple Heart.
The reason the Virtual Boy failed because it wasn't a complete system. Nintendo wanted to move the development staff to the n64 team and the Virtual boy was rushed
if they had the time it probably would have turned out something like the oculus rift instead of a pile of poo
Captain LagSpike True but look at how much of a success the N64 was
what about the headache inducing red 3d graphics
Geek from The inter-nate That's a load of crap, very few actually get headaches while playing, and it's mostly due to an improperly focused system. In fact, the Virtual Boy could help exercise your eyes and can improve your vision. Developers were even looking at building special applications for doing this before the system was cancelled.
And don't give me that crap about being only Red killed it, the Gameboy pocket was released after the VB, with a way worse screen, and everyone loved it.
I think it failed because of terrible marketing, and the anti-social nature of playing the system. If they actually had released the link cable alongside it with some cool 2 player games that properly took advantage of the systems strengths it could have been a much different story.
in english?
I like handhelds better than consoles today because of games, cheap price, portability and did I mention games?
Modern handhelds today have backlit and 3d graphics. Nuff for me!
I'm probably a rare kind of gamer in the west but in Japan this is common
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+Christopher-Lee Drenthe na wate, wut da hale?
Arctic so how are you enjoying the nintendo switch now
The Game Boy Light was the best version of the original Game Boy. It's the only one with a backlit screen.
back lit SP, even better XD
i like gam boy
I like the gam boy too!Best handheld ever!!
Hey balrog!!!
I cri evrietym.
Sup! Balrog!
al hail teh virtul boi!
Him: Has golden, diamond littered gameboy...
Me: Uses a brick with a vomit green screen...
Someone should give a medal to that random dude who was probably writing "8008135" on the calculator.
...Or do Japanese only think about Godzilla?
Surprised you didn't mention the fact that Yokoi was actually murdered via a Yakuza assassination plot masterminded by the chairman of Nintendo at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi.
Yokoi also created Wario.
And thanks to Miyamoto's stubbornness with things not created by him, we will never have a proper Wario Land/World sequel ever.
...wait what the.... isn't Wario World a sequel to the Wario Land's? So he did make a sequel to Wario Land.... meaning you contradicted yourself.
It wasn't that long ago that we got a Wario Land game for the Wii, but yeah, it would be nice if we got another Wario game that's not Wario Ware.
I used to dream about getting another Mario platformer game where Wario is a playable character, but... that dream is a bit dead now.
dorko4u Warioware is a game about doing fucking simple tasks over and over and over. 10/10 WORTH THE 40 DOLLARS.
To be fair, the concept of Wario was made by Yokoi, but Wario himself was designed by Hiroji Kiyotake.
I can't find info on who actually designed Daisy, but since Yokoi created Super Mario Land as well, her creation could be credited to him as well.
What the hell are you guys talking about? Didn't we get "Wario Land Shake It" in 2008 for the Wii? It is an amazing game, I own a copy.
Thank you for everything, Gunpei Yokoi.
I use to own a GameBoy Nintendo has been a huge part of my life first I had a GameBoy and then later on me and my family had a N64 I use to have a Nintendo 3DS XL (I lost it) and now I have a Wii.
+Douglas Roth That's a really cool story.
VICEGIRLS Thanks.
"Lateral thinking of whithered technology"
That man is a friggin genius.
Hm, I wonder...
If they went with the "strap on goggle" design for the Virtual Boy and maybe added an option to turn the 3D off, maybe it wouldn't have been such a failure...
and if they would have left it in development til like a couple years from now, it would have been amazing.
It would have been a red Game Boy
Anddo
Nah, just because you can turn off 3D on the 3DS it isn't a DS. I thought that it would have been a good idea to make 3D optional so that people who get sick from 3D could still have used the console.
CoxTH Not the same analogy. The 3DS without the 3D still has the superior technology. The Virtual Boy used the same architecture as the Game Boy, the only differing element was the 3D and its red tint.
Anddo
game boy had a 8bit 4.2 MHz processor and virtual boy had a 32bit 20MHz processor. Not the same architecture at all.
Virtual boy may be crap, but in what world a game boy would be able to move a game like Red Alarm?
Wait wait wait... A Game Boy, survived a EXPLOSION, during the Gulf War? And it still functions perfectly, just the cosmetics and such is just morphed?
...HOLY FUCKING CEREAL CRUMBS, THAT GAME BOY MUST HAVE BEEN AN OX IN DISGUISE!
I guess this just helps the thought about older consoles being more durable and less fragile to be true. "You could drop a TV on a N64 and it would be fine" a friend of mine says...
CALM DOWN
I know, and the 360 barely lives 3 years.
GAMEBOYS ARE SHIELDS!
yea so guys what the orgial artia is like
Nintendo has been known for making game machines with strong builds. Even the WIi U is a brick.
Wish Nintendo would resurrect/reboot the Game Boy brand again
+Medalion 3ds?
Yes! I'm 13 and I've always wanted to try my hand at a GameBoy :) The closest I've had to one was my DSI XD
+MT03YT It's the same thing though. A Game Boy by another name.
+DarkLink1996 the ds boy
All hail the Virtual Boy.
Virtual as FUCK
+Kinkzoz All hail the red, headache, terrible, so called "virtual reality" boy!
Virtualboy For president.
NO. I'd hail the Wii U more than Virtual Boy
i still own a brick and its fun to use
TurtsMc Lee i got one a month ago with Battletoads
i recently fixed mine and i always play blue and links awakening its fun using classic things amirite
I got GB right now.
its very to fun to use i tried using a gbc game on it by cutting a little bit of the edge but a message appears saying its not compatible
A brick that can last longer than the Sega Gamegear.
Virtual Boy is still better than Tiger Electronics' device.
5:57 all hail the virtual boy
+Deadninja gaming roblox,vlogs,so much dislikes
No. NEVER mention that again!
Ok sorry geez
Deadninja gaming roblox,vlogs,so much dislikes nope nope and nope
all hail the virtual boy
OK, where the heck did that video of all the Miis worshipping a Virtual Boy come from, anyway? I'd love to see the full video!
Search "tomodachi life" :3
Really? I guess that game is even weirder than I thought, then...
@@EdKolis Late reply, but it's from a Tomodachi Life Direct video.
For anyone interested in the first song, it's Float Islands from Kirby's Dream Land. In case any of you were on the hunt like I was.
Nintendo has always lived 1 generation before their time. (Gameboy being behind sega technology and atari) yet. theyve always come on top. Wii U will be fine
Two words: virtual boy. Made by nintendo, sucked like crap.
Narwhal King true, but that was almost 20 years ago.
Narwhal King ye but then they made the wii and that shit printed money
Narwhal King
It wasn't that the virtual boy was bad. I own one and it was amazing at the time. Had they tested how the display when combined with the positioning of the head worked together prior to release, it may've been a success. Or if they had just released the head mounted version instead.
*****
Yes, the Virtual Boy was a poorly system, but it's really also a tragic one. It was - and you can really see this in it's design and how it's launch was handled - an incomplete system that was pushed out before it was read, and really should have been a prototype. There's even evidence the system had been intended to at least be head worn, but instead was rushed out with a clumsy stand. It's a shame, because some of the games on it, like Teleroboxer and Warioland, were actually -very- good games. Not that all of it's games were, because Waterworld was one of the most phenomenal pieces of garbage ever coded. In the end, whatever the reason, the Virtual Boy ended it's life as a mistake. One to be learned from. No console/game company is without failures, if they've been around for any length of time.
woah woah woah. The big N made a home console BEFORE the NES? this "color tv game system?"
Now I get that "color ev 15" reference in smash bros
Marnerbroman where was that?
Samrules888 It's an assist trophy summon. We mostly call it by the name "Pong".
There were multiple ones, basically games similar to what you would find on a Magnavox Odyssey (if you don't know what it is just Google). The most famous of these were Pong, also called Color TV-15
AVGN Did an episode on Pong Consoles he showed he owned two of them but could not play them as they don't work on American TVs.
Did You Know?
I have a gameboy phone case
Super Mario Hamburger Cheeseburger Did you know?
I don't care that much
Super Pancake Bros. I used to have a giant Game Boy shaped case that I would store all my handheld gaming stuff in.
lol same, mine a s3 case
A gameboy that was played in space? only sold for 1,200 dollars??
“Lateral thinking of withered technologies”
Sounds like Nintendo, *even today*
Last time I saw this video, Mighty No. 9 backers were still crying like an Anime fan on Prom Night.
xD rip mega man and this "BECK" guy... he could get a department store. BECK BUY! BUY TERRIBLE CAPCOM GAMES!
We have a device like that. We call it the GameDuck.
You again..
So... I've seen you around UA-cam for a while, and I've been wondering...
How does a duck use a keyboard?
JakeTheAwesome I think he 'pecks'! XD
And here we see a troll in its natural environment
He uses his feathers :P
We have to thank Gunpei Yokoi for all the handhelds we have today.
1:50 , So THERE'S where Game&Watches final smash move came from....
DAH EPIK DUCK/OCTAPUS IZ COMMANG (this is from RŌBLOX)
RIP Yokoi-San.
Game Boy was my life, and to some extent, still is.
Wherever you are up there, thank you sir, for making my childhood awesome.
I've always loved old games, especially the ones from Nintendo. So one day, my day bought me a Game Boy and three games for it, Tetris, Golf and Kirby's Dream Land. I owed him 1200 crowns (the Swedish currency) but it was worth it. Since that day, I always played on it, even in School (but only at the breaks). So one day, my math teacher gave me 3 games for my Game Boy, Sneaky Snakes, Donkey Kong Land and Super Mario Land. She told me it brought her back to so many memories, and she didn't need those games anymore anyways. Best math teacher ever. And when the Christmas came, I got two new games I always wanted for my Game Boy, Pokemon Red and Kirby's Dream Land 2. About half a month later, I went to London and bought 7 new games, Motocross Maniacs, Duck Tales 2, Mortal Combat II, Street Fighter 2, The Amazing Spiderman, Tetris 2 and Solar Striker, for only 40 pounds, which equals about 500 crowns. That's the history of my Game Boy.
R.I.P Gunpei Yokoi
And Thank you.
I had a Game Boy Camera when it came out. I got the Game Boy banned entirely at my school because I took a photo of a kid and stamped a big nose on him and then showed it to him at recess. He told the teacher on me :( That was a mistake.
M Bison but the funny thing is how bad the camera quality is, that it got banned cos of the time... 3DS would be a common thing now i imagine?
I still call my handheld console a gameboy.. Its a habit I cant break.
First I had 4 different game boys and then suddenly ''DS''? NOP! ITS A GAME BOY!
Ill never stop calling my 3DS a game boy Q_Q
*****
Haha, I do that to my dad. He can't stop calling the DS a gameboy lol
***** how I see it is that it's like calling your motorcycle a bike.
Oh, and did you know that the DS wasn't called something with the word "gameboy" in it because they were afraid that it would bring more shame to the name?
By the way, as a kid who grew up with a dad that does that kind of stuff all the time, keep it up! It really prepares them for what they will face in their everyday lives.
I bring my old GBA SP with me everywhere, and all the clueless kids around me say, "Hey a DS!" And I always explain that DS stands for dual screen and let them work that out.
2:32 Actually that is incorrect, Nintendo did NOT patent the D-pad, in fact it is one of their longest running regrets.
Wow, so much gaming and Nintendo history in general are here. One of the best episodes you guys have done.
Wait, you said that the Korean embargo relicenses of Nintendo were made by Samsung? I could have sworn it was Hyundai that released the "Comboy" series....?
You would be correct.
ALL HAIL THE VIRTUAL BOY!
Anyone else remember those creepy ass pictures from pressing run on the gameboy camera?
What are you running from?
Why do they exist?
I cried. . . . . .
The last Gunpei Yokoi ever produced is my favorite Nintendo game ever, which is Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, which was released exclusively in Japan in 1996.
Thank you Gunpei for an amazing handheld and changeing the industry! And, as always, thanks for the video!
these videos are strangely addictive im a gaming enthusiast and collector so like the facts
Enthusiasts are bad as shit sir... Just like my shitty as classmate that drinks a gallon of energy drinks.
3:39 Nokia has met its match
05:55 all hail virtual boy :D
i like that all the Vsauces channels use "Hey Vsauce, 'presenter name' here" and "As always thanks for watching" ~ :3
rest in peace yokoi san, your conteibution to the industry lives on
Just saying DYKG, if you ever make a League of Legends DYKG, PLEASE have videogamedunkey be the commentator.
Nah...LilyPichu. In her Annie voice.
Either or. But I would prefer dunkey
nobody needs to know about league of shit.
THERE IS MY GAME BOY!
Take it out of the screen, QUICK!
'Face palms'
*jumps off cliff*
I have a Super Game Boy. It's pretty cool.
your picture is very disturbing
Sinclair Fruciano That's a strange way to spell seductive.
Best picture I've seen
ITS 2014 AND YOU STILL HAVE A SUPER GAME BOY?!?!
It works too. My sister's friend gave me a working copy of Pokemon Crystal and it plays just fine.
5:05 "You are charged with sexually abusing a 10-year old boy. What do you say in your defense?"
"He had a Game boy, your honor. WITH A CAMERA! There's no way I could've resisted him!"
IPhone: *falls on a carpet and it shatters*GameBoy: *blows up during the Gulf War and still works today*
TheHeavenlyBuddy Apple products suck (switch to android) but yeah power to Nintendium!
Im liking this just because they used mario land music.
2:31 does that mean microsoft, sony and other 3rd party game controller makers have to pay nintendo to have a d-pad.
no bc if you look closely at the ps controller they do not have the same configuration as the nentendo d pad. the ps controller has lil arrow heads that point inward and the centers never touch. nintendo has an actual cross where all the directions touch. microsoft had lots of trouble finding a suitable d pad on their controllers... if you remember the 360 had a horrible d pad and that was a major flaw of the controller. this wasnt bc microsoft had bad designers but because Nintendo wouldnt license their tech over to microsoft. i am not exactly sure why the xbox one has a proper d pad now but they may have came to an agreement with nintendo or possibly tweaked the design ever so slightly so that it doesnt imfringe on nintendo's tech. also, if you remember, half way thru the life cycle of the 360 ms released a controller where the dpad did some kind of twisty motion which was sopposed to alleviate the problems with the original 360's dpad suckiness and did not infringe on nintendos tech. sooooo.... your answer in a nutshell... no they do not have to pay bc they all use slightly different configurations (unless, MS started payin nintendo for the rights on their new xbox one controllers)
/rant
gutts10 Oh. OK, thanks.
Kevin Clarke the xbox one dpad is just a complete copy from nintendo's modern dpad design, so maybe nintendo can sue microsoft and win...
I'd love to see that.
gutts10 Actually I'm pretty sure the cross d-pad design is on the Xbox One controller now because the patent already ran out.
There was a controller that did have the cross design: The Dreamcast controller, but that's because the internal part of the d-pad was designed differently than Nintendo's design.
+Troll4ever31 ._.
Actually come to think of it...
YES IF THAT HAPPENS WE CAN HAVE RAREWARE AGAIN
4:35 Such a nostalgic song, can't find where it's from though :(
Super Mario Land.
muda kingdom
Nintendo should release an "Oculus" type 3D goggles named "Virtual Boy 2". A new head mounted display with advanced tracking technology.
"Game boy camera."
*INSTANTLY ATTEMPTS TO SKIP SIGNIFICANTLY FURTHER AHEAD*
You forgot the creepy faces in the game boy camra
i don't like those
Roses are red...
Violets are blue...
I am 301st viewer,
So are you!
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John Smith Yes.
John Smith Join me, and together we can rule the internet as Unshaved and John!
Unshaved Stuff I feel left out noaw.
I'm number 156939 hard eh har
you forgot the "run" easter egg on the gameboy camera
**Shrug** Thats fuckin creepy
You've dun goofed on a fact there, guys.
Actually, it wasn't Samsung, but Hyundai, who sold the mini Comboy. Same with the Comboy (NES) and the Super Comboy (Super Nintendo).
Samsung only sold Sega-branded consoles in S. Korea.
Gunpei Yokoi died in 1997? That was the year I first played the Game Boy, and I never realised...
A sad coincidence, but it makes me appreciate his creation even more. The Game Boy was the first game console I ever played, without it I wouldn't have got into gaming period.
What if the NX would be a Virtual Boy revival
+A Shimonek The NX will be the return of Cartridges (SD cards though this time). They are faster and can reduce costs for small games (if your game is only 8GB big then you only ship it in 8GB sd card. No reason to ship it in a 50GB blu ray disc, thus reducing costs and helps indie game companies ship their games physically. Plus SD cards currently have faster read times than blu ray discs
John Demetriou its still disks
+Carl Bloke disk drives are faster than compact disc though though.
MrFRNTIK true
Fuck you then! XD lol
RIP Gumpei Yokoi
i kinda prefer this video than the recent one...
Agreed, Remix's narraration is just really bland. Also Jake is just awesome.
theDLCguy - Doesn’t help that it was just a lazy rehash of this particular video with Remix replacing VSauce.
Furil: Mommy?
Lip: What is it, sweetie?
Furil: Do I have... a Dad? Somewhere?
Lip: ...kind of... you used to...
Furil: Did something happen to him?
Lip: ...(Tears up)... yes... something very bad... something hit him really hard... he never woke up...
Furil: ...you mean... he’s dead?
Lip: (Covers her face and begins to sob)
...yes, sweetheart... he’s dead...
Furil: (Tears up) ...Mommy, don’t cry...
Rest In Peace, Gunpei Yokoi.
(Not only did Gunpei create the Game Boy, he also created a fantastic puzzle game known as Panel De Pon. The characters in this brief story come from Panel De Pon. It’s now available via the Nintendo Switch Online service if you want to play it.)
4:48 the birthtime of selfies