[game_preservation] Two books on Gumpei Yokoi [Japanese]

[Henry Lowood]

I am putting in an order to get copies for Stanford, so at least be one 
copy of both books in North America.  Stanford's holdings are visible to 
the world, and these should be available via Inter-Library Loan.

Henry

On 7/30/2010 8:16 AM, Jose P. Zagal 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

>>

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