Leynos said:
So left hand players can play and possible TATE mode option. You flip the system around and people who are left handed can use it. There was a switch for it. |
I guess, but I'm left handed, I've never really understood wanting to flip the controls though.
For Yokoi it's probably more accurate to say he's the father of the Game & Watch, not so much the Game Boy.
Okada retired from Nintendo in 2012, I doubt many people even know who he is but he is more accurately the actual father of the Game Boy (though others were involved also). He also was the head of the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance.
Other fun fact, he opposed the dual screen idea of the Nintendo DS, but president Yamauchi insisted it had to have two screens (not even on the basis of one being a touch screen, he just wanted two screens ... just because I guess two is better than one? The touchscreen idea only came afterwards when they were trying to figure out what the heck they would do with two screens lol).
Even Iwata hated the idea of two screens according to Okada and was getting the idea shoved down his throat by Yamauchi. They were working on a next-gen version of the Game Boy codenamed "Iris" at that point.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 24 January 2026“President Iwata then came to see me. He was obviously bothered and he said: ‘l talked to Yamauchi-san over the phone and he thinks your console should have two screens… A bit like the multi-screen Game & Watch, you see?’ Everybody is aware of this, but what people do not know is that at the time, everybody hated this idea, even Iwata himself. We thought it did not make any sense.”
