2. Gunpei Yokoi By: Korinne and Sammy Driscoll 3 rd

3. Death  Died at 56  Gunpei was killed by cars  October 4, Gunpei rear ended a truck  He was hurt and injured by 2 passing cars  He was pronounced dead two hours later

5. What Gunpei was famous for…  He was famous for designing video games  He is most known for the game boy  Although he has many other inventions

6. Work  He was first hired by Nintendo in 1965  He did extensive work on the system we know today as Nintendo  Nintendo is a gaming system (for example they made a DS, helped with the game boy)  He left Nintendo in August 15,1996

7. Game boy pocket  He sold over 200 million game boy pockets.  The game boy pocket was released sometime in 1996.  The game boys now are sold within a range of 20-35 dollars

8. Ultra hand  It was a toy made in the late 1960s.  One part of it is a scissor and it also extends.  On the other side of the ultra hand there are two bowl shape things.

9. Ultra machine  The ultra machine shoots out soft balls that you can hit with a bat.  It was designed in 1967.  More than a million ultra machines were sold.

10. Virtual boy  It was released August 14, 1995 in North America.  It did not do well and was discontinued the following March 2, 1996.  He sold 770,000 of them.

11. Background Information  Born September 10,1941  Grew up Kyoto  Graduated from Dashina University

12. Resources  Wikipedia.org  About.com

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