Hiroshi Yamauchi died...

[Da_Shocker]

Shocked that this hasn't been posted unless I missed it.

Hiroshi Yamauchi was Nintendo's third and arguably most important president. When he took the reins from his grandfather in 1949, the Japanese company specialized in the manufacture of playing cards for its home market -- first Japanese-style cards and then, under Yamauchi's guidance, Western-style ones too. By the time he handed over control to Satoru Iwata 53 years later, he'd overseen the creation of all Nintendo's game consoles up to the GameCube and become on of Japan's richest men -- in other words, not a bad innings for a man who passed away today at the ripe old age of 85.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/19/f...yamauchi-dies/

[KitsuneNight]

yeah just read about that
he had a hell of a run
and this also means nintendo is now firmly in iwata's hands ...urgh

[Occutell]

Rest well Mr. Yamauchi
o7

[KitsuneNight]

a pretty decent in depth article about yamamuchi http://www.usgamer.net/articles/hiro...e-velvet-glove

[Aarzak]

For us Sega fans, he'll be remembered as the mastermind behind Nintendo's stifling third-party exclusivity contracts that starved the Master System, and to a lesser extent Genesis of third-party support and which hindered their success in Japan. But few can deny his impact on the gaming industry as we know it today, and for that I posthumously thank him. R.I.P Mr. Yamauchi.

[soviet]

After his death，he went to heaven to do his business，and Jesus said to him：“sorry，Yamauchi ，do you remember Okawa Isao? He pretty near has a monopoly on the heaven's game market here。so，you must go to fu**ing hell！”

Since then, Nintendo became NinJigoku......

[Bottino]

For us Sega fans, he'll be remembered as the mastermind behind Nintendo's stifling third-party exclusivity contracts that starved the Master System, and to a lesser extent Genesis of third-party support and which hindered their success in Japan. But few can deny his impact on the gaming industry as we know it today, and for that I posthumously thank him. R.I.P Mr. Yamauchi.

I'm sure he's in a better, peaceful place now,

playing a lot of Master System and Mega Drive.