[game_preservation] Two books on Gumpei Yokoi [Japanese]

[Devin Monnens]

Hi Jose,

No, I don't know of anyone who isn't in Japan who has these. You CAN get
them off of Amazon, but it costs $40 to ship them to the US...that's the
same cost as the books themselves! o_O

There's the Virtual Boy fanpage you probably know about -
http://www.virtual-boy.org/

And I also repaired
<http://deserthat.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/resurrecting-a-virtual-boy/>a
virtual boy :)

-Devin

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Jose P. Zagal <jzagal at cdm.depaul.edu>wrote:


> Hi,

>

> Wow, great find!

>

> Does anyone here own these books? I'm looking for info on the

> design/development of Nintendo's Virtual Boy (designed by Yokoi) and I'm

> wondering if these books have any info on that platform.

>

>

> thanks,

>

>

> Jose Zagal

>

>

>

> On 7/21/2010 11:25 PM, Devin Monnens wrote:

>

>> There are two books out in Japan now on Gumpei Yokoi.

>>

>> The first is the legendary "Gumpei Yokoi's House of Games Returns", a

>> reprint of the super-rare original. The second is "The Father of Games:

>> Gumpei Yokoi, the Man Who Created the DNA of Nintendo".

>>

>> Both are in Japanese. I don't know of any attempts by the publisher to

>> get these translated into English, though I certainly hope someone is up

>> to it!

>>

>>

>> http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4845910500/tugenowomakur-22/ref=nosim/

>> *http://tinyurl.com/2azxagq*

>>

>> I'm not really sure who you would contact to get started on such a

>> project. I just know they are 225 pages long each, so it's not like this

>> would be a cakewalk! Maybe one of those guys like Chris Kohler is on it...

>>

>> -Devin

>>

>> --

>> Devin Monnens

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>>

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> DePaul University

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Devin Monnens
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The sleep of Reason produces monsters.
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