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Satoru Iwata Has Passed Away

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BriGuy

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He seemed like a great guy all around. Very genuine. It's sad to lose anyone to cancer before their time, but he was still so young and undoubtedly still had so much left to do. Condolences to his family.
 
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ASIS

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NeoXChaos said:
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I shouldn't enter this thread anymore.

These pics area going to make me cry.
 
MrFortyFive

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RIP. What a loss. It's barely even sinking in. Kirby's Adventure was one of my favorite games as a kid. I played through it dozens of times. He literally shaped a significant part of my childhood that kindled my love for games.
 
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Candeldandel

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It's weird, like... I didn't know him personally, though I wish I coulda met him at some point in the future... but I didn't even know he was ill :( I'm in shock. I'm feel crushed. I'm gonna miss that man :((((

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SatelliteOfLove

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Some will say he was a wonderful programmer, who did coding sorcery to get games like Pokemon Gold and Silver onto cartridges that had no business fitting.

Some will say he was a jovial personable man who humanized the often fitful, draconian realm of the video game boardroom.

But I will remember him as the man who ate big pay cuts to keep his staff employed and occupied where other CEOs would throw their people under buses or flee and have someone else desperate to appease shareholders do it instead.

And for that, he will be missed deeply.
 
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javac

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I actually have tears in my eye and am deeply saddened and shocked by this news. He always came across as a wonderful person, a fun person, a person who loved the job and the company that he worked for and I felt that through the products that I brought from Nintendo. Me and my brother would always wait for his name to pop up in the credits of their games and would sit around the screen during a direct, waiting to see his face and his silly antics and I've spent countless hours reading his interviews. It was known that he was ill for a while and as time went on, you could see him physically getting weaker, but even so his enthusiasm was still palpable. From his banana holding to his 'Directly to you' pose, his fight with Reggie in the Digital Event and the Puppets this year he was both funny and smart, a legendary super programmer, making games on his Hewlett-Packard HP-67 calculator as a kid in class, programming both Earthbound and porting Pokemon to the N64 among many other feats, he has undoubtedly been immortalized and will be remembered by everyone in the industry as a man who loved doing what he did, and although it's a very sad day, I'll always remember him as the fun guy he set out to be, working for the company that puts smiles on the faces of people all around the world, rest in peace.

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Eteric Rice

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RIP Mr. Iwata. You made some fantastic games in your time, and have left a legacy most people would kill to have. Thanks for all of the memories. :(
 
ArtHands

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Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Goddamn, that was sudden :(

RIP

I am going to miss all the Iwata ask and Nintendo Direct
 
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Mixolydian

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SatelliteOfLove said:
Some will say he was a wonderful programmer, who did coding sorcery to get games like Pokemon Gold and Silver onto cartridges that had no business fitting.

Some will say he was a jovial personable man who humanized the often fitful, draconian realm of the video game boardroom.

But I will remember him as the man who ate big pay cuts to keep his staff employed and occupied where other CEOs would throw their people under buses or flee and have someone else desperate to appease shareholders do it instead.

And for that, he will be missed deeply.
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Mmhmm. We'll said.
 
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Shikamaru Ninja

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Hiroshi Yamauchi saw Satoru Iwata as the man that would lead Nintendo into the next century. Irreplaceable person and leader.

Soo much to process. Wish none of this was true.
 
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