Episode 341: Gunpei Yokoi (Pt. 1) (Patreon)

We have touched on the work of Gunpei Yokoi many times over the years, but this is the first time Retronauts has taken a comprehensive look back at his work and career like this. Pure Invention author Matt Alt shares the extensive historic research he's done into 20th century Japan's post-war industrial revolution to bring remarkable depth of context to Yokoi's career—so much depth, in fact, that we didn't even manage to reach Yokoi's work in video games this episode! Artist and Japanese pop culture enthusiast Bill Mudron joins myself and Matt to look back at the foundation of Yokoi's work, building to a follow-up episode due soon that actually talks about the video game part of his career. 

Cover art by John Pading and audio edits by Greg Leahy!