Satoru Iwata (岩田 聡, Iwata Satoru?, born December 6, 1959) is the fourth president and CEO of Nintendo succeeding the long-standing previous president of the company, Hiroshi Yamauchi in 2002. Satoru Iwata was responsible in great part for defining Nintendo's strategy both before and during the release of its GameCube video game console in 2001, a vision which helped Nintendo generate a forty-one percent increase in sales at the end of the 2002 fiscal year.
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Back in 1993, a strategy guide for the recently released Kirby's Adventure appeared in Japan. Inside, three of the big men responsible for the new game decided to sketch the little pink puffball. There's contributions by Masahiro ...
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Back in 1993, before Satoru Iwata was the big cheese at Nintendo, he was made the President at Hal Laborotary. Hal are the creators behind the Kirby games but, as you can see from this picture, Mr Iwata wasn't exactly the ...
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In this picture from a circa 1993 Nintendo official strategy guide book for Kirby's Adventure, we see young Shigeru Miyamoto, young Satoru Iwata, and young older? Masahiro Sakurai draw their best Kirby. The text below Miyamoto, who was o ...
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It’s nearly June, which to the tech-minded means only one thing. Nope: not an iPhone launch – they happen later in the year these days. We’re talking E3, the biggest gaming expo of the year, which is taking place June 7th-9th. But, whilst everyone ...
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It appears as though Nintendo will have a brand new Wii U controller to show off next month. That, of course, is when the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) kicks off in Los Angeles, and where all the major ga ...
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Ansel Adams was part of a group of San Francisco realistic landscape photographers who called themselves Group f/64. The name came from their desire to achieve maximum depth of field (DOF). However, attaining maxim ...
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Speedway Racers Review By Jordan Minor on May 21st, 2012 Our Rating: :: WANNA GO FASTUniversal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad Speedway Racers is streamlined racing that’s tailor-made for touch and tilt controls. | Read more » Th ...
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Crucial.com, an online destination for memory upgrades, is inviting all Mac enthusiasts to enter the "Dinner with the Woz" sweepstakes for a chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet, greet and eat with Apple co-founder Steve "Woz" ...
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By Tamoor Hussain for computerandvideogames.com We don't know much about the next Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, but we know it's in the works. A new Smash Bros was first confirmed in at E3 last year, where Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata told E3 att ...
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