Nintendo's Nastiest War: WonderSwan vs Game Boy

Thanks for Gruns for sponsoring this video! Get up to 52% off! Just click here https://gruns.yt.link/rt1r2ko In this video, Did You Know Gaming takes a look at how Gunpei Yokoi and a team of ex-Nintendo talent helped create Bandai’s WonderSwan. We also cover how Nintendo reacted behind the scenes, accelerating plans that led from Game Boy Color to the Game Boy Advance, and why WonderSwan ultimately couldn’t keep up. Chech out HPRshredder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSi7cKvyQ3w Follow DYKG on: Twitter: http://bit.ly/2oOavs2 Instagram: http://bit.ly/2oO4jjA Facebook: http://bit.ly/2nIrFp9 Website: http://bit.ly/NpYDbD Research/Writing by Dr lava Video Editing by TheCartoonGamer Narration by @HPRshredder Sources/Further Reading: 横井軍平ゲーム館 (Gunpei Yokoi's 1997 biography, approximately 40% in his own words, while the other 60% is paraphrased --by his co-author Takefumi Makino -- from long interviews he did with Yokoi with the express purpose of writing this book) ゲームの父・横井軍平伝 任天堂のＤＮＡを創造した男 (Takefumi's second Yokoi biography, published in 2010) Gunpei Yokoi: Vie Et Philosophie Du Dieu Des Jouets Nintendo (Yokoi's French biography, by Florent Gorges) The History of Nintendo Volume 2: The Invention of Game & Watch (by Florent Gorges, currently unavailable in English) The History of Nintendo Volume 4: The Incredible History of the Game Boy (by Florent Gorges, available in English) Gunpei Yokoi's memorial in the January 1998 issue of Game Criticism Magazine (Japanese) Nintendo Magic: Winning the Video Game Wars WonderSwan Magazine, Volume #1 https://www.famitsu.com/news/202303/04294502.html https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/c1801/PU/JP-2001-212373/11/ja https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20220720007/ https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20220316093/ https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20220303097/ https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20180901010/ https://www.inside-games.jp/article/2016/04/07/97654.html https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/20000830/bandai.htm https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/20000316/toy.htm https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/990917/game04.htm https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/20000313/bn1.htm https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/24/business/sega-to-acquire-bandai-creating-toy-video-giant.html https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/28/business/acquisition-of-bandai-by-sega-called-off.html https://shmuplations.com/okada2022/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231112040314/https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/games/news/9810/08/news03.html https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Support/Game-Boy-Pocket-Color/Product-information/Technical-data/Technical-data-619585.html https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/09/15/wonderswan-color https://youtu.be/BMVLeGYQ23k #nintendo #wonderswan #gameboy