The Making Of The Game Boy | The Masterpiece Nintendo Hated

From its Game & Watch inspirations, to the risky pack-in title Tetris, and its tumultuous development filled with twists, betrayals, and even its cancellation. This is the story behind the creation of the original Game Boy. LowspecGamer's Game Boy video - https://youtu.be/9Ki-kH751_8?si=uB-7lNTTxmvbCJME*** Follow Florent Gorges on Twitter - https://twitter.com/FlorentGorgesFR Follow me on Twitter - https://twitter.com/WrestlesGaming Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/wrestlingwithgaming 00:00 - Intro 01:18 - Book Plug For History Of Nintendo 02:03 - The DMG Is Born 05:05 - Screen Selection 10:56 - R&D1's Internal Battle 15:59 - Sharp's Game Boy? 19:27 - The Death Of The Game Boy 22:34 - The Game Boy's Resurrection 27:07 - The Game Boy Launches 33:27 - Game Boy Accessories 36:17 - Game Boy's Reception And Legacy 40:03 - Why Haven't I Posted?/Credits *** Additional Footage used from the following channels: NintendoComplete, Game Escape, PlanetVB, Retrobits, Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music, Dudaw, Jalop Entertainment, Alice eyes, OldAdvertArchive, Daniel Atkinson, Rétroscoring, The Collectors Zone, RGTV, epcmd, Consumer Time Capsule, MrFakeNES, Lynxx Lancer Plays, stolenorchestra, Analog Zero, BetaGems Lost Media, DragonStarPlanet, 8BrickDMG, pepbrew ** Sources: La Historia De Nintendo, volume 4 (The History Of Nintendo Vol. 4) – By Florent Gorges https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20220316093/ https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/6659 Idahonian (Newspaper) – October 25, 1989 The Blade (Newspaper) - November 26, 1989 Gannett News Service (Newspaper) - October 1989 https://www.denofgeek.com/games/nintendo-game-boy-history-green-screen-graphics/ http://d.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/namcot http://superfami.com/barcodeboy.html https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/historical_data/pdf/consolidated_sales_e1512.pdf https://kotaku.com/game-boy-creator-explains-why-he-left-nintendo-1825818754 Retro Gamer Issue 163 Retro Gamer Issue 36 The story of Gunpei Yokoi, the father of games – By Takefumi Makino https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/4033/Nintendo-Game-Boy/ https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/19/18295061/game-boy-history-timeline-tetris-pokemon-nintendo https://shmuplations.com/yokoixeno/ https://shmuplations.com/yokoi/ https://shmuplations.com/gameandwatch/ https://gamehistory.org/ep-10-nintendos-gunpei-yokois-history-with-matt-alt/ http://blog.beforemario.com/2012/05/nintendo-game-watch-multi-screen-1982.html https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdbx7/how-gunpei-yokoi-reinvented-nintendo https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131102052451/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Color+it+loud+with+hot+new+Game+Boys%3B+Game+Boy+reflects+players+own...-a016001521 ACE Issue 23 - August 1989 Video Games & Computer Entertainment - August 1989 https://web.archive.org/web/20210501033349/https://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/SFC_1988Q3.html Game Machine – 02.15.1989 3D Models/assests below were used and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) : Nintendo DS Lite by Cianon NINTENDO SWITCH by animationMXM "Nintendo Game & Watch Octopus Oc-22" (https://skfb.ly/6WPYD) by Natali_Voitova "Office Props Pack" (https://skfb.ly/6yYK8) by seenoise "Mercenary's Famicom" (https://skfb.ly/oBMw6) by Quentin Dejaeghere "Game Watch v.2 free" (https://skfb.ly/or87A) by Marcin.Kwiatkowski "Workbench" (https://skfb.ly/6RunP) by Shedmon "Metal Nintendo Logo" (https://skfb.ly/6UVRC) by Santiago Shang "Old Soldering Workstation" (https://skfb.ly/ovRCs) by Wikiti "LCD Screen" (https://skfb.ly/oK8KD) by Wanou "Donkey Kong Jr Skf" (https://skfb.ly/6XzUE) by simonripley "1980 TV" (https://skfb.ly/6xBzy) by Warkarma Game Outline – oloff3 (https://www.deviantart.com/oloff3/art/GameBoy-84027409) "NES" (https://skfb.ly/on6CP) by Rusty Hardy "Tetris Tetriminos" (https://skfb.ly/6SIF6) by Vague "Army robot" (https://skfb.ly/oHGX8) by 3DWorkbench "Cornet Hut" (https://skfb.ly/6nQwY) by Jhoser B "Paper/Information holder" (https://skfb.ly/owCAS) by kg11