[game_preservation] Two books on Gumpei Yokoi [Japanese]

[Jose P. Zagal]

> 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


Yes, I saw that...and the cost has me debating whether or not to get 
them on the off-chance that they might be useful (cost in this case is 
mostly about the translation effort, not so much the cash).


>

> There's the Virtual Boy fanpage you probably know about -

> http://www.virtual-boy.org/


Great site. I would personally recommend this one:
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/news/




> And I also repaired

> <http://deserthat.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/resurrecting-a-virtual-boy/>a

> virtual boy :)


Ah, yes. The old oven trick, it's probably the scariest thing I've ever 
done with a piece of hardware I own. :-)

I would also encourage homebrew development. I gave it a try for the 
IGDA Global Game Jam. Yes, it works on actual hardware.

http://globalgamejam.org/2010/virtualboy-channel-sweeper

Also, if anyone is interested in the platform, you can check out:


http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1690406

Zachara, M. and Zagal, J. P. 2009. Challenges for success in stereo 
gaming: a Virtual Boy case study. In Proceedings of the international 
Conference on Advances in Computer Enterntainment Technology (Athens, 
Greece, October 29 - 31, 2009). ACE '09, vol. 422. ACM, New York, NY, 
99-106. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1690388.1690406


Apologies for the shameless self-promotion.


thanks!

Jose



>

> -Devin

>

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

> <mailto: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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José P. Zagal
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College of Computing and Digital Media
DePaul University

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