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The R&D Teams
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Yamauchi divided his staff into 4 different R&Dteams, standing for Research & Development, he made them compete against each other to see who could produce the best games. Hiroshi never told the teams what to create so they had free hands to create what every they wanted!
[From the beginning there was only one R&D team lead by Gunpei Yokoi.]
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The R&D1 Team
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The R&D1 team lead by Gunpei Yokoi has for example designed the Game Boy and
the Virtual Boy. Metroid (the first game with a female hero?!) and Kid Icarus has alos come from the R&D1 team. They were described as "a band of samurai" operating in silence with less recognition that the other teams.
Gunpei Yokoi
The man behind the Game Boy, Virtual Boy, and the Game&Watch games.
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The R&D2 Team
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This Team was lead by Masayuki Uemura and has been behind much of the hardware. Uemura's team was often assigned all sorts of top secret projects. 65 people worked under Uemura.
Masayuki
Uemura
The leader of the R&D2 team.
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The R&D3 Team
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This 20 people team lead by Takeda Genyo was responsible for much of the technical stuffs like the bank switching and later the many MMC chips just to mention some things. The team has also done games like Star Tropicsetc. Takeda's team nicknamed "Rumania" had a motto "There are
no limitations, no boundaries since were're on our own there's nothing we can't do when you start with nothing you can do everything"! This team is isolated from the other teams and can be described as a band of "otakus" (computer hackers and nerds).
Takeda Genyo
The leader of the R&D3 team
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The R&D4 Team
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Three yearsafter the release of Nintendo'sfirst real smash hit Donkey Kong in 1981 Shigeru Miyamoto got his own R&D team. This team called "Jojo Kaihatsu" or the "entertainment division" only has one assignment: to come up with the best and most imaginative games ever and as we all know they have.
Shigeru Miyamoto
The man behind Mario
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