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Some context: The CEO and President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, passed away recently. He is credited with saving EarthBound from cancellation by joining the prog

• hkmurakami 11y ago
  You might be conflating this with the Super Smash Brothers Melee story, where Iwata left his Nintendo HQ corporate strategy role to join HAL Laboratories for QA & Bug Fixing so that the game wouldn't miss its ship date (this was 3 months before the launch date).
  • Zengor 11y ago
    Whether Earthbound was to be cancelled or not I don't know, but it's a similar story in that he was the president (in the Earthbound case, of HAL laboratories) but he joined the programming team. Unlike Smash, though, he rewrote Earthbound entirely in a few months: http://kamedani.tumblr.com/post/45700864819/mother-2-re-release-discussion-part-1 http://kamedani.tumblr.com/post/45700864819/mother-2-re-rele...
• amyjess 11y ago
  He didn't just join the programming team: he wrote nearly all the game's code by himself from scratch. He was the programming team.
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