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Mael said:Gaf is kinda like the app store, there's always an existing reply for that :
That's what i get for not reading 4 pages. oops
Mael said:Gaf is kinda like the app store, there's always an existing reply for that :
Segata Sanshiro said:Ah, get a sense of humour.
I am outraged by your outrage. But I think I'll laugh about it later. After some time has passed.jay said:Being offended is more fun for some people. I'm outraged you don't know that.
Tranced Shadow said:Uhh, am I the only one who finds this a little disrespectful?
I'm not really offended. Even as a joke about a dead person, the joke doesn't even have variations like how David Caruso opens an episode of CSI Miami. It's "Yamauchi/Nintendo killed Yokoi lololol!", that's it. In my opinion, 'It Prints Money' and 'various Nintendo hardware is run by Pikmin/sunshine/rainbows/etc.' is funnier.jay said:Being offended is more fun for some people. I'm outraged you don't know that.
ShinobiFist said:Iwata has the"Lance of Longinus" by his window in his office.
Crisis said:
MisterHero said:I'm not really offended. Even as a joke about a dead person, the joke doesn't even have variations like how David Caruso opens an episode of CSI Miami. It's "Yamauchi/Nintendo killed Yokoi lololol!", that's it. In my opinion, 'It Prints Money' and 'various Nintendo hardware is run by Pikmin/sunshine/rainbows/etc.' is funnier.
I like your commercials Segata. I also enjoyed you when you pretended to be Rambo.
For Rambo you look so huggable
http://kotaku.com/photogallery/segatarambo/1001697835
I just don't enjoy this particular joke.
A little from Column A and a lot from Column B, but yesjay said:So when you said it's disgusting that people find this humorous you didn't mean disgusting because it's laughing at the expense of someones life, rumor-mongering, etc. but more disgusting in the same way I am disgusted that people like Carlos Mencia?
:lol :lolandymcc said:unrelated. konami pulled off 9/11 so they could have reason to delay MGS2.
ah the classic trope of a robot trying to understand humanityShard said:Why, just why do things like this exist?
It's popular belief that Gunpei Yokoi, the creator of the Game & Watch series, the Game Boy, and the Virtual Boy, left Nintendo because he was in disgrace over the the Virtual Boy's failure. But according to the book "Nintendo Magic" and Yoshihiro Taki, a Nintendo employee who served under Yokoi, that wasn't the case. Yokoi was simply easing into his planned retirement.
Yeah but Sony killed you with a missile.Segata Sanshiro said:Nintendo tried to run me over with a car once but I judo flipped it and it exploded. Sadly, I'm pretty poor at designing Metroid games.
YOU TOOK THE WRONG ONE NINTENDO
That's just nintendo rewriting history like they always do. If he was thinking about retiring he wouldn't have created a new company.Mak said:Like some others have mentioned, Gunpei Yokoi was already planning to retire when he turned 50 and it wasn't because of the Virtual Boy that he left Nintendo as previously thought.
http://ds.about.com/b/2010/07/28/ga...snt-the-reason-gunpei-yokoi-left-nintendo.htm
[Nintex] said:That's just nintendo rewriting history like they always do. If he was thinking about retiring he wouldn't have created a new company.
Holy moly is this true?ruby_onix said:Nintendo wasn't upset with Yokoi over the Virtual Boy. Nintendo needed something to offer. Anything. Yokoi had the VB. Nintendo took the ball and ran with it, and tripped up, and then realized that it wasn't even a ball, it was a banana. It was entirely Nintendo's fault, not Yokoi's and I think Nintendo knew it. Yokoi volunteered to take the blame and absorbed all the shame of it, freeing Nintendo from the stink of failure, and Nintendo owed him huge for that.
As I heard it, when Yokoi started his own company, he was "making a new handheld" but Nintendo was paying him to take notes and make observations about it's development, and those notes were passed to Yokoi's old team, which was concurrently making Nintendo's new handheld. That's why he was hanging with Nintendo people. Because he was unofficially still working for Nintendo as an advisor, and unofficially helping with it's handheld development.
When Yokoi was killed, the secret link to Nintendo was severed and Bandai took over control of his company, and two years later the Wonderswan came out.
It's a meme to suggest that Yamauchi is so badass that he can have people killed, but it becomes distasteful when you try and take it seriously. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there who like it even more when it becomes distasteful.
That Yokoi was killed by known criminals does raise the concern that it may have been deliberate murder, but even if that was the case, we'll never really know why they did it (not unless they catch the guys who did it and someone like Perry Mason or Matlock breaks them down on the stand), and it's a bad idea to start randomly brainstorming the possible reasons for someone to kill someone else until you hit the one reason that you think just feels right.
Mael said:Considering the internet consider Mario Bros 2 as a mistake as well as Zelda II, I wouldn't say it's Nintendo that's always rewritting history...
Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan? Cuz that one *was* a mistake.Mael said:Considering the internet consider Mario Bros 2 as a mistake as well as Zelda II, I wouldn't say it's Nintendo that's always rewritting history...
The quote comes from Nintendo Magic.[url=http://tinycartridge.com/post/862046655/virtual-boy-wasnt-gunpei-yokois-downfall]TinyCartridge[/url] said:According to Nintendo Magic and Yoshihiro Taki, who worked under Yokoi at Nintendo and later served as president and CEO of WonderSwan developer Koto, that wasnt the case at all:
In August 1996, Yokoi retired from Nintendo at the age of 54, and a month later he founded Koto, a small toy company, in Kyoto.
At the time, there were whispered speculations that he had left Nintendo to take responsibility for the Virtual Boys failure, or that there had been a fight with [Nintendos former president Hiroshi] Yamauchi, but Taki who was there to see says none of this is true.
Yokoi had originally decided to retire at 50 to do as he pleased. His retirement had simply been a bit later than planned.
pff, there's no such thing as Nintendo Magic. Amir0x told me so.sfried said:
CaseyTappy said:Conspiracy Gaf ?
:lol
Hitlersaurus Christ said:Nice try, but Gunpei Yokoi isn't dead.
You see, after the failure of the Virtual Boy, Yokoi-san was more determined than ever to come up with something that was truly revolutionary. After hours of research and possible use of top secret alien technology and occult rituals, he finally invented a game platform so amazing, so innovative that it trasncended spacetime itself. The creation of the device (dubbed ULTIMATE SUPERIOR INFINITY BOY in Nintendo's secret documents) brought about a change in Yokoi. While creating it, he had gained something along the way... He had attained true enlightenment. He had become too big for this world. Using his god-machine, he ascended to a higher plane of existence and was never heard of again. Nintendo, not wanting anyone to ask questions, forged a story about his death.
But he still lives, in the dimension beyond our own... Watching.
Of course you are susceptible to such suggestion. It's in your very nature.Segata Sanshiro said:pff, there's no such thing as Nintendo Magic. Amir0x told me so.
Well, I heard someone say it (that he was already passing notes), and I want it to be true. And I'm sure that if Yokoi had lived, it would have remained a possibility that he'd work with Nintendo again in the future, as an independent.Boney said:Holy moly is this true?
I just.. Yokoi is the man of my dreams...
Nintendo did. They gave him Bandai.Mael said:Weird that Nintendo couldn't provide a little division for him to do that, guess he wanted the freedom anyway...
ah the world of whatcouldhavebeen....
EmCeeGramr said:Now do you understand what you are, "Segata Sanshiro"? Or should I say...
...Unit 346!?
He may be a robotic duplicate, a mere artificial Segata... But he still carries the memories and spirit of a true hero! The body is fake, but the soul is real!IrishNinja said:i believed in you, segata. i was gonna play Yakuza one day.
what the fuck, man
Segata Sanshiro said:Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan? Cuz that one *was* a mistake.
EmCeeGramr said:Of course you are susceptible to such suggestion. It's in your very nature.
Segata Sanshiro did indeed die in that missile blast, friends. Yet here he is right in front of us. What is the meaning to this mystery?
It's quite simple. Sega, in their infinite financial acumen, decided to invest large amounts of money into keeping their lovable "mascot" safe. First, recall the The House of the Dead commercial in which Segata Sanshiro falls before a group of zombies. His attacks were useless, and the horde was upon him. Yet he appeared safe and sound in later commercials. In some of these, he did superhuman feats, such as "ice skating" past an Olympian with his bare feet, and kicking hundred-mile-per-hour baseballs for a home run.
The answer, is stunt doubles. The first of these were given extensive cosmetic surgery, made identical in appearance to the original. Our poor zombie-victim "Segata" was one of these. As casualties mounted from accidents involving martial arts, explosions, fires, and zombies, they gradually began to experiment with genetic engineering and cybernetic enhancement to make more durable superhuman doubles, capable of performing the feats in the commercials. The failed "gigantic" Segata units appeared alongside dozens of normal stunt doubles in the Dragon Force II commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TLkdLqmxu
As the Saturn neared the end of its life, so did the completion of one final "perfect" double. An entirely robotic creation, a Segandroid, with the memories of the real Segata Sanshiro implanted within them. An indestructible machine.
And it was built none-too-soon, as the real Segata died in an actual real missile attack by Sony on Sega headquarters (Sega turned the news footage into a "commercial" for their own gain). Segata was useless now. So the Segandroid was decommissioned before it was even activated. Or so they thought. Soon after, the Dreamcast began to hit troubles. The Sega Defense Alarm Unit built into the Segandroid caused it to automatically activate. Unaware of its true nature, it gained sentience.
Now do you understand what you are, "Segata Sanshiro"? Or should I say...
...Unit 346!?
Regulus Tera said:Taking the joke too far...
Thunder Monkey said:Looking at all the naked men in here, the booze, and more then a few dead bodies...
I missed one HELL of a party!
Seraphis Cain said:Who's taking the joke too far? This thread stopped being about Gunpei Yokoi on the second page. :lol It's about Unit 346...er, Segata now.
Fucking Kansas!AniHawk said:You might have another chance at skiesofwonders's place, i'm guessing