Nintendo - Gunpei Yokoi Car Crash
Time: Friday Oct 3, 1997
Place: Tokyo, Japan
Details: On 4 October 1997, famed Nintendo developer Gunpei Yokoi died in a car crash. In 1997, Nintendo released the SNS-101 (called Super Famicom Jr. in Japan), a smaller redesigned version of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
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