Satoru Iwata

Alright so my first gaming post is admittedly a sad one.  Originally I was going to review Final Fantasy 9 but well.....life.  Speaking of which a great man has passed away 8 days ago (yes i'm late with this but like I said....life) Satoru Iwata was the president and CEO of Nintendo and died at the age of 55 to Bile Duct Growth.  It's heartbreaking to see him go honestly.

For those of you who don't know, i'm a huge Nintendo fan.  Nothing passes the day better than sitting down with my 3DS while Youtube is playing in the background; so Mr. Iwata's death comes as quite a shock to me.

From a young age Mr. Iwata was a huge video game fan, he loved them to their core and this pushed him to become a games developer and very talented programmer, although against his parents wishes.

Some of Satoru Iwata's accomplishments include:

• Saving HAL Laboratory from bankruptcy by creating a relationship with Nintendo
• He took a month to complete a project (Mother/Earthbound) which would have originally taken 2 years.
• He also had a huge involvement in Kirby's Dream Land.
• Assisted in founding Creatures Inc.
• Coded 64 battles in a week for Pokemon Stadium for the Nintendo 64 shocking the Pokemon programmer Shigeki Morimoto
• Savior of Pokemon Gold/Silver by creating a graphics compression tool to fit the Kanto region into the games
• He became the head of the corporate planning division at Nintendo
• Assisted in ncreasing Nintendo's profits from 20% to 41%
• Iwata became the fourth president of Nintendo and the first to not be a family relative to the founders of Nintendo.
• Worked on popular titles such as Legend of Zelda, Mario and Animal Crossing
• Assisted in the debugging of Super Smash bros. melee in time for it's scheduled release date
• Fostered a relationship with Capcom
• Lead the company to the creation of the Nintendo DS as well as pushing for the development of the Nintendo Wii
• Doubled Nintendo's stocks by the development of the aforementioned hardware
• Improved public relations with Nintendo's fans
• Took the role of Nintendo of America's CEO
• Established a partnership with mobile provider DeNA

Although his accomplishments are many there is one thing that truly stands out for this man.  He is a true gamer at heart and shall live on in not only our hearts but in the hearts of those the games he assisted on touched as well.  Personally without Satoru Iwata I don't know how I would have managed to cope with society, this man has managed to bring people together simply by loving video games and by being passionate in what he believed in. So please join me in saying farewell to a man who helped revolutionising the world of gaming.  May you rest in peace.