/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6932692
The Japs ripped off the Spectrum anyway
>Iwata recalled, "We examined nearly every game console then on the market, including machines we imported from other parts of the world, such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, but none of them had the graphics fidelity we wanted. We came up with the idea for the game pad as we were worried that children could break conventional joysticks too easily. We were a bit obsessive about that; the Famicom's controller buttons were tested with a machine punch and pressed more than 1 million times, and still worked afterward."[45]

>>6932086
Why don't you just admit Yokoi stole the idea for Metroid from Matthew Smith?

>>6929509
He is completely fuckin mad nowadays as well. Out of his mind. A sad fate foe the true creator of the Metroidvania genre, that should rightly be called Willyvania. Had Gunpei Yokoi not stolen the idea, it would be.

>Iwata recalled, "We examined nearly every game console then on the market, including machines we imported from other parts of the world, such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, but none of them had the graphics fidelity we wanted. We came up with the idea for the game pad as we were worried that children could break conventional joysticks too easily. We were a bit obsessive about that; the Famicom's controller buttons were tested with a machine punch and pressed more than 1 million times, and still worked afterward."[45]

This proves that Gunpei Yokoi stole the idea for Metroid from Jet Set Willy, which came out in 1984.

>>6928430
More proof Gunpei Yokoi stole the idea for Metroid from Jet Set Willy on Spectrum.

>>6927910
The fact that Gunpei Yokoi was known to be a huge Spectrum fan, its safe to say that Nintendo stole the idea for Metroid from Jet Set Willy

>>6927187
Gunpei Yokoi was a known Speccy fan and stole the idea for Metroid from Jet Set Willy. Shiggys words here reek of trying to cover up the fact they got a lot of their supposed innovations from the Speccy

>>6924784
Gunpei Yokoi disagreed.

He stole the idea for Metroid from Jet Set Willy

>>6923298