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Nintendo: The Console Wars

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The Success of the Game and Watch

This chapter discusses the immense success of the Game and Watch console by Gunpei Yokoi, selling over 43 million units and generating over a billion dollars in revenue for Nintendo. It explores Gunpei's philosophy of lateral thinking with withered technology, and how he utilized mature technology from the calculator industry to develop a portable version of Donkey Kong for the NES.

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