Gunpei Yokoi, sometimes transliterated as Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese toy maker and video game designer, born in Kyoto on 10 September 1941 and died on 4 October 1997. He was a long-time Nintendo employee, his career ran from 1965 to 1997, and he was best known as the original designer of several notable Nintendo products. Within this atlas Gunpei Yokoi is credited as the producer of Metroid. These details are drawn from the English Wikipedia article Gunpei Yokoi, which this entry cites as its source.
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Gunpei Yokoi (Japanese: 横井 軍平, Hepburn: Yokoi Gunpei; 10 September 1941-4 October 1997), sometimes transliterated as Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese toy maker and video game designer.
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Satoru Okada, Gunpei Yokoi, Hiroji Kiyotake, Yoshio Sakamoto
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