The History Of The Game Boy Is Pretty Interesting

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Soundwave said:

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I didn't have time to watch the video, but I believe the film was similar to Magnavox Odyssey's plastic films you could change to each game - and quite frankly, this is how Game & Watch had it's backqrounds made into different games.

https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey

No offence to Mr. Yokoi (RIP), but frankly this idea for the very late 80s/early 1990s is insanely out of touch. The product he wanted the Game Boy to be probably would've been no where near as successful. It's fortunate for Nintendo really that he was shouted down and Okada took over lead of the project and made basically a pocket Famicom/NES instead. 

I agree. Yokoi was a toy designer at Nintendo, so that's what he wanted to make with Gameboy, or G&W2, if we think of the design.