Retronauts Episode 341: Gunpei Yokoi (Pt. 1)

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Parish speaks to Bill Mudron and Matt Alt about the work of Nintendo legend Gunpei Yokoi and how his innovative pre-video game creations reflect the post-war culture and industrial boom Japan experienced during the ’60s and ’70s.

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0:00.0	You're listening to RetroNots, a part of the Greenlit Podcast Network, a collective of
0:04.3	creator-owned and fully independent podcasts focused on pop culture and video gaming.
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0:17.1	This week in RetroNots, nice game boy.
0:42.4	Welcome to RetroNots at the moment.
0:54.9	Good episode.
1:05.8	nice and loose but also informative and it's an episode featuring someone who
1:12.2	surprisingly has never been on the show before despite being a supporter and
1:16.1	sometimes contributor to the show and other capacities. So please introduce yourself
1:20.9	newcomer. Is that me? That would be. Oh that's been on the podcast. I've been on
1:26.2	before. So this is all your show now. My name is Bill Mudgerin. I'm an artist and
1:31.3	yeah I guess I have contributed to well more Jeremy's books than RetroNots
1:35.0	proper but some of his books and stuff you have contributed illustrations and
1:39.4	little things like that. I used to do some artwork for electronic gaming
1:43.8	monthly before that died. I contributed artwork to GamePro before that died.
1:47.8	The power before that died. Yeah I drew the last Howard and Esther
1:51.9	strip and so you're so I've already killed that. Yeah I am a serial murderer of
1:57.0	internet video game magazines. Well you know someone's got to kill him.
2:00.7	Exactly. So hopefully yeah hopefully RetroNots will last more than six months
2:04.4	after this episode. Just don't draw for us and we should be fine. I just I want to
2:08.0	hear more about the very last was a very special episode of Howard and Esther.
2:11.9	Did you? I don't want to be that guy who's like did you not read the last
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