ktay95 said:
He left Nintendo before he died Amid the failure of the Virtual Boy, Yokoi left Nintendo on August 15, 1996 after 31 years at the company. However, he did not leave before completing the more successful Game Boy Pocket as a going-away present in July of that year. Leaving with several of his subordinates to form a new company called Koto, Yokoi led the development of the Bandai WonderSwan handheld gaming machine. On October 4, 1997, while driving on the Hokuriku Expressway with his associate Etsuo Kiso, Yokoi rear-ended a truck driven by Takashi Okushima.[15][16] After the two men had left the car to inspect the damage, Yokoi was hit and fatally injured by two passing cars. The driver of one of the passenger cars that hit Yokoi in the second accident was Gen Tsushima, a member of the tourism industry.[16] Yokoi was pronounced dead two hours later.[4][17] It sucks he never got to see the WonderSwan launch. Still I wouldnt say it was one of Nintendo's failures as their next handheld was the DS, seems like he had some worthy successors. |
Exactly, it's not like he designed his life's masterwork after leaving. Everything he accomplished was with Nintendo.
