Remember when Iwata spent three weeks alongside the Melee team debugging the gameplay so they could make their deadlines
Remember when Iwata cut his pay when the Wii U was losing fiscally to make sure nobody on his team had to suffer on behalf of those losses, because he believed the system couldn’t make it without everyone’s participation
Remember when he ported Pokemon Stadium’s battle system in a week without reference sheets
Remember when he originally helped work on Mother and basically helped the series exist
Remember when he compressed Pokemon Gold and Silver to even less than half its original size to fit in Kanto, something the original dev team didn’t even think was something they were gonna do or even could do themselves
Remember all those goofy montages he went out of his way to make fun of himself for so we could laugh
Remember how he refused to let Nintendo become active on the mobile market, effectively having made the company truer to core principles of videogames than most
Remember how people actually hated him and how he had to return from work tired every night probably having to keep this in mind
This is literally the best party game ever ok so here’s what you do:
Everyone sits in a circle
Whoever goes first whispers a question to the person on their right
The person on the right must answer the question out loud. The trick is, no one else in the circle knows the question.
Next, someone flips a flip-flop up in the air.
If it lands face up: the asker must say the question out loud to the whole group
If the flip flop lands face down: the asker doesn’t say anything, and everyone in the group is left to wonder what in the world the question was.
And you go around the circle like that. The best questions have the answers as people. We like to limit it just to people in the circle, too. It just makes it more fun.
Here are some examples of good questions:
You have to cover someone in the circle completely in peanut butter and lick it all off. Who?
You and one other person must be surgically bound together for the rest of your life. Who is the other person?
You and someone in the circle go in a dark room for 1 hour and do unspeakable things. Who?
the creepy sexual ones are the best, and it’s really fun when you limit it to people in the circle. have fun
Think of all the nice things he gave us and did for us during the time he was around. Don’t focus on the fact that he’s gone- focus on the impact he made.
thank you to mr. iwata for making so many people - children and adults alike - smile, laugh & have fun. we will never, ever forget your whimsical spirit. rest in peace… i’m sending love/positivity/prayers to your family and co-workers.
I don’t give a shit you can badmouth Nintendo as a company all you like but when the WiiU was underselling Satoru Iwata stepped up to the fucking plate and halvedhis goddamn salary so he wouldn’t have to lay people off. Ask any other CEO to do that and they’ll probably look at you like you’ve told them the moon is made of purple goat yogurt or something.
Iwata went from being a game developer to president of the company he made games for and had a unique perspective because of it. He was a treasure and his loss is a tragedy.
