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Hiroshi Yamauchi dies at 85 (Nikkei)

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Yoshichan said:
I wonder what the gaming industry would look like without Yamauchi... I'm so sad right now...
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No Mario, no Zelda, no Donkey Kong, no NES, no SNES, no Wii, no Playstation and so on.

It's making me more sad the more I think about it. The man that made quite a few childhood memories possible not on this planet anymore.
 
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Yoshichan said:
I wonder what the gaming industry would look like without Yamauchi... I'm so sad right now...
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I've actually wondered that a few times. Certanily the home computer boom in Europe came about largely without his influence, so would the modern games industry be more from those roots than Nintendo's?

I wonder if we'd have actually come full circle and ended up at a machine that was fundamentally the Xbox with a keyboard by default.
 
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Kimawolf

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Damn, and so another visionary who transformed an industry passes on. rest in peace. No one will ever forget how you transformed videogames forever.
 
Jinjo

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Wow. They just played the Mario game over soundbite after reporting he died on the Dutch radio. Fucking disrespectful.
 
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Rest in peace. I dont know how much Hiroshi Yamauchi had to do with the design and creation of the NES and the SNES, but i assume that he approved those systems at least. Those two consoles are some of the best consoles of all time in my opinion, so i'm glad that those systems were made :)

85 years is also a pretty good age, he had a long life. I hope that i will live at least that long.
 
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GSG Flash

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Oh shit!

RIP :(

Thanks for giving me some of my best memories of my childhood.
 
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cafemomo

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God speed you glorious bastard.
Thanks for the SNES, GBA, and GameCube.

The finest consoles and handheld to grace thus planet
 
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slit

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He was one of the driving forces in reinvigorating the game market in the U.S. after the crash.

R.I.P. sir.
 
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evilromero

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Nintendo was at their absolute best under his leadership. Their best games, systems, executives and developers. Reading about him in Game Over made the biggest impression on me and my time as a gamer during the 80s and 90s. It'll never be like that again.
 
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Ikael said:
The dude was the videogame equivalent of Tywin Lannister. Much respect to him, RIP
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Probably the best way to put it. A lot of the decisions he made, especially when Nintendo came into power were certainly shrewd, hard nose and bordered on bully tactics, but it also secured the legitimacy of video games as a longtime viable commodity. There are probably no consoles around if not for Yamauchi.

RIP
 
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gonna be honest here: im reading this thread & retweeting RIP's and shit but it's totally not set in yet. it's gonna be kinda crushing when it does...he's been old since i was a kid sleeping over at my friend's house & waiting for his parents to nod off to play NES. the man hasn't been in the spotlight for over a decade but he's still iconic...Retronauts, Retro Gamer & the like should be putting in work for fitting tributes soon.
 
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m0t0k1

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Jinjo said:
Wow. They just played the Mario game over soundbite after reporting he died on the Dutch radio. Fucking disrespectful.
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You should know dutch jokes are always kind of rough. Was kinda expecting to have this joke at least ones. That said i dont find it very funny.
 
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Hero of Legend

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Thank you Mir. Yamauchi, for creating the Nintendo we know and love today, I would not be a gamer today if it were not for you, I hope you will be happy and safe no matter where you are now. :'(

I am curious and a bit worried about how this affects Nintendo. I thought he was the largest shareholder, but he was still part of the Board of Directors wasn't he?

He came up with the Q-Fund which was him donating a shit-ton of money to Nintendo when he retired to fund new developers, pretty sure Genius Sonority was born this way, as well as NDcube.

I'm happy he got to live a long and such a wonderful and legendary life, I hope he has was as happy as every person his legacy as made all combined and ever more. :'(
 
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