Nintendo - Gunpei Yokoi Idea
Time: 1978
Place: Kyoto, Japan
Details: In 1979, Gunpei Yokoi conceived the idea of a handheld video game, while observing a fellow bullet train commuter who passed the time by interacting idly with a portable LCD calculator. The idea became Game & Watch.
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