developer wild gunman
Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s , ___MASK73___ then developed into a video game company in the 1970s , ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan ' s third most - valuable company with a market value of over $ 85 billion . From 1992 until 2016 , ___MASK73___ was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball ' s Seattle Mariners . The series chronicles the missions of space - faring bounty hunter Samus Aran , who protects the galaxy from the depredations of the Space Pirates and their attempts to harness the power of the eponymous Metroids . " Metroid " combines the platforming of " Super Mario Bros ." and the exploration aspect of " The ___MASK85___ of Zelda " with a decidedly darker atmosphere and a greater emphasis on nonlinear gameplay . ___MASK91___ Icarus is an action platform video game for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan and the ___MASK73___ Entertainment System in Europe and North America . The first entry in ___MASK73___ ' s " ___MASK91___ Icarus " series , it was published in Japan in December 1986 , and in Europe and North America in February and July 1987 , respectively . It was later re - released for the Game Boy Advance in Japan during 2004 , and for the Wii ' s Virtual Console online service in 2007 . A to this game was released for the Game Boy in 1991 , and a to the series was published for the ___MASK73___ 3DS handheld console in March 2012 . The is an 8 - bit handheld video game device with interchangeable cartridges developed and manufactured by ___MASK73___ , which was first released in Japan on , in North America on and in Europe on . It is the first handheld console in the Game Boy line and was created by Satoru Okada and ___MASK62___ . This same team , led by Gunpei Yokoi at the time , is credited with designing the Game & Watch series as well as several popular games for the ___MASK73___ Entertainment System . Redesigned versions were released in 1996 and 1998 in the form of Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Light ( Japan only ), respectively . , sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi , was a Japanese video game designer . He was a long - time ___MASK73___ employee , best known as creator of the Game & Watch handheld system , inventor of the Control Pad ( whose plus - shaped design nearly all video game controllers attempt to mimic today ), the original designer of the Game Boy , and producer of a few long - running and critically acclaimed video game franchises , such as " Metroid " and " Kid Icarus ". Wild Gunman (  Wairudo Ganman ) is a light gun shooter game created by ___MASK73___ . Originally created for arcades in 1974 by Gunpei Yokoi , the game was updated and released in 1985 for the ___MASK73___ Entertainment System , being among the few games making use of the NES Zapper peripheral . Japan (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of Japan ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland ( east of China , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near ___MASK47___ in the southwest . A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor . The word " video " in " video game " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as of the 2000s , it implies any type of display device that can ___MASK57___ two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize video games as an art form , but this designation is controversial .