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Gunpei Yokoi

Gunpei Yokoi

Gunpei Yokoi didn't score well on his electronic university exams, resulting in him having to apply for a low tier job as a machine maintenance worker at a playing card company: Nintendo.

One day, Nintendo's president saw him playing around with an extendable arm called the Ultra Hand, and told him "Turn that into a toy, we're going to market." And it's sort of a success.

This resulted in Nintendo's president telling Gunpei: "All right, you're going to start a game and toy operation."

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