[quote]Nintendo has just issued a short statement announcing that president Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of 55.[/quote]
[quote]The statement reads:[/quote]
[quote]Nintendo Co., Ltd. deeply regrets to announce that President Satoru Iwata passed away on July 11, 2015 due to a bile duct growth.
Iwata was forced to skip last year’s E3 due to his poor health, and shortly afterwards underwent surgery to remove the bile duct growth.[/quote]
[quote]Iwata first joined Nintendo in the 1980s, where he worked on games like Balloon Fight and EarthBound. He became a Director of the company in 2000, and in 2002 was appointed as only the fourth President of Nintendo.[/quote]
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All we had to do was understand please, and we didn't. I love you Iwata, I hope the new acting president is a programmer and gamer like you were and not a corporate suit looking to run Nintendo into the ground. You know Iwata was a driving force behind optimizing the first two gens of Pokemon in time, sitting down and just -blam!-ing hammering out the handiwork coding himself when it wasn't going fast enough? Peace bro. http://vocaroo.com/i/s1leEzNcf9TL