developer
Nintendo R&D1
任天堂開発第1部
Japan
About
Nintendo Research & Development 1 (R&D1) was Nintendo's oldest internal development division, led for many years by Gunpei Yokoi. The division created the Game & Watch series (1980), the original Game Boy hardware (1989), Super Mario Land (1989), Metroid (1986), and the Virtual Boy (1995). After Yokoi's departure in 1996, R&D1 was reorganised and eventually merged into other Nintendo departments.