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Gunpei Yokoi, also spelled Gumpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei) (September 10, 1941–October 4, 1997), was a video game designer in Japan. He was a long-time Nintendo employee, creator of the Game Boy and Game and Watch, and producer of the long-running Metroid series. Yokoi's games have been seen on every Nintendo video game console, with his earliest work appearing on arcade machines. His games have received critical praise from many reviewers, and he has been the recipient of various awards. Yokoi was married. He died in a traffic accident in 1997. Gunpei Yokoi was born in 1941 and grew up in Kyoto. He graduated from Doshisha University with a degree in electronics. He was first hired by Nintendo in 1965 to maintain the assembly-line machines used to manufacture its Hanafuda cards. In 1970, Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo at the time, came to a hanafuda factory Yokoi was working at and took notice of a toy, an extending arm, which Yokoi made for his own amusement during spare time as the company's janitor and machine maintenance man. Yamauchi ordered Yokoi to develop it as a proper product for the Christmas rush. The Ultra Hand was a huge success, Yokoi also worked on other

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