[game_preservation] Two books on Gumpei Yokoi [Japanese]

[Devin Monnens]

Interesting...

Well, I have been doing quite a bit of translation recently and while I
don't quite have the chops to do a 250-page book (actually, I've done a
bunch of comics <http://metroid-database.com/manga/listing.php?vid=3>and
some interviews <http://metroid-database.com/sm/interview.php>), I was
planning on seeing how much of it I could get done, but I wanted to see if I
could find a cheaper way of shipping these. I think it would be cheaper to
send them by boat... I don't know if you know Aki Nakamura at Ritsumeikan,
but I discussed translating this book with him before (prior to its
reprinting). He is in China, so has not had time to respond to me about
this. It's also possible I could buy the books and have them shipped to
someone in Japan who could scan them (shipping inside Japan is free through
Amazon).

-Devin

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Jose P. Zagal <jzagal at cdm.depaul.edu>wrote:


> 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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