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

He was only 55

We lost someone legit

We’ll never forget you Iwata