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.