Iwata Asks: Game & Watch, vol. 1 p. 5

Cite as: Iwata Asks: Game & Watch, vol. 1 p. 5
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Credit: Nintendo Co., Ltd.; Satoru Iwata interviews the Game & Watch developers (Izushi and others).
Notes: In Japanese. The developers date the cross button's first use to Game & Watch Donkey Kong, a year before the Famicom.

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The earliest known cross pad is Game & Watch Donkey Kong's, released in June 1982, a year before the Famicom. Nintendo dates the cross key's first use to it, the second game in the Game & Watch Multi Screen series.	`page 5, Izushipage 5, Iwatapage 5, note 21`	Interview
Game & Watch's developers went through many prototypes of the cross button, and Gunpei Yokoi insisted on details such as a slightly concave center so that it could be worked without looking.	`page 5, Yamamotopage 5, Izushi`	Interview