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Do you have any idea how that turkey made it through multiple levels of management to eventually reach the market? You seem knowledgeable in this arena.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Do you have any idea how that turkey made it through multiple levels of management to eventually reach the market? You seem knowledgeable in this arena.
- slantyyz 10y agoWasn't the Virtual Boy created by Gumpei Yokoi, the guy who basically created the Game Boy? Maybe it got through based on his reputation alone? I recall reading (unconfirmed) stories in the gaming press that after the Virtual Boy failed, Yokoi was basically relegated to an office where he basically did nothing.
- leoc 10y agoApparently https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virtual_Boy&oldid=765361493#Development https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virtual_Boy&oldid... Yokoi didn't really choose to ship the product that actually came out: like many another long-drawn-out, ambitious project Virtual Boy ended up being basically thrown out the door as-was once senior management lost patience with it.
- ashark 10y agoThey looked back at what the Vectrex 3D Imager had done a decade earlier and thought, "the technology has advanced; this time it's different!" ?