Chapter six hundred and thirteenth meeting
I just finished more than ten hours and the flight across the Pacific Ocean was very exhausted.
After arriving at the hotel room, Iwada Satoshi felt a deep sleep. He didn't feel this way when he was in the car before.
He lay on the bed, and although he wanted to sleep, he didn't know why. No matter what, he couldn't fall asleep successfully. There were countless complicated and complicated thoughts in his mind. He didn't know why, he was obviously very tired.
So, he lay on his back on his bed, looking at the ceiling, recalling some of his past events, hoping that this would help him sleep.
In fact, it was very accidental and inevitable that he could embark on the path of game development, but more importantly, this was his original choice. Do you regret it? Iwada Satoshi asked himself like this, and then he shook his head silently. Although his career seems to be in trouble now, he will never regret it, because he really loves this industry.
When did you become interested in game development?
Iwada Satoshi kept recalling in his mind: It was probably in high school.
At that time, I had just come into contact with HP-65, a computer made by HP, and became interested in programming. After self-taught programming, I sent my homemade games to HP, which shocked the other party and even gave me many unexpected gifts...
When I thought of the great achievements he had in his teenage years, Iwada Satoshi couldn't help but laugh.
After that...
My first computer was a first-year college student, and I couldn't remember it clearly. It seemed to be the model pet-2001. At that time, he began to study programming hard, especially the assembly language of 6502, which was something he had studied. He didn't want to treat games as a career for his life. At that time, he thought it was fun to make games. But by chance, he learned about the great success of "Space Invaders".
Only then can I treat it as my lifelong career.
As he thought about it, Iwada Satoshi also smiled bitterly. When talking about his work experience after graduation, he was also very irritated with his family.
After all, I am from Hokkaido, not from the big cities in Tokyo and Osaka, so my family did not have a high acceptance of this kind of new thing. When I decided to work at the HAL Institute after graduation and started game development, my father learned that he was furious with him. At that time, I had not said a word to them for half a year.
Thinking about it now, they are also considering their future?
If I had not chosen to go to the Hal Research Institute back then, but chose to go to a major company, maybe I would not have been trapped by so many things now, right?
However, my work in Hal was also very smooth. In addition to the recent selection and divestment of the game business, there were very few people who knew 6502 assembly at that time, so I studied 6502 assembly language since high school. I, who had a deep attainment in it, was deeply important, was responsible for many important projects, and was also highly valued. Originally, Mr. Yamauchi planned to officially turn Hal Research Institute into a subsidiary of Nintendo.
But it's a pity...
As I thought about it, Iwada Satoshi also thought of the current situation of Hiroshi Yamauchi and couldn't help but sigh.
When a person starts to recall, it is usually easy to calm down. Once a person calms down, he will fall asleep easily. Iwada Satoshi, who was still worried that he could not fall asleep, also fell asleep deeply. After all, anyone who has experienced more than ten hours of flying across the Pacific Ocean is impossible to be exhausted.
Mars Entertainment Headquarters.
Jester put down the phone, which was called by the GDC Organizing Committee and told him that Satoshi Iwata had arranged to stay in the hotel.
That's right, he was the one who invited Iwada Satoshi to attend GDC this time.
This is an exception.
He was also unintentionally asking whether any of the employees Miyamoto’s previous Nintendo recruited by Shigeru Miyamoto was named Satoshi Iwata.
Because in Jester's impression, Iwada Satoshi was a programmer and also a producer, and he also produced classic games like "Balloon War" on FC, so he should be very famous. Unfortunately, after hearing Jester's question, Shigeru Miyamoto thought for a little while, then shook his head and replied that he had never heard of this character.
Then after thinking about it carefully, Jester understood that in history, the reason why Iwada Satoshi was very close to Miyamoto's short message was because Miyamoto had some problems with programming when developing Supermaster, and the people from Nintendo headquarters could not solve it. It happened that Hal researched all programmers who were very good at 6502 assembly, and FC also used 6502 CPU, so there was an intersection.
However, in this world, Nintendo no longer has super power.
So, the butterfly wings in the dark made a joke like this. The two of them, who were originally friends, had no friendship.
Then, after Jester asked someone to investigate, he found out that Iwata is still in the hal research institute, and the game research institute invested by Nintendo is on the verge of closure. Basically, there will be news within the latest few months.
So, Jester asked the organizing committee to send this invitation to Iwada Satoshi, and he also hoped to have a good talk with Iwada Satoshi, and he hoped to get the general, Iwada Satoshi.
Because, Iwada Satoshi's future achievements are really amazing and outstanding.
When Nintendo was in the most dangerous situation, he took over the president's banner from the legendary president Hiroshi Yamauchi. At that time, Nintendo's defeat in NGC caused the fighters and morale to fall to the bottom of the company. For example, Nintendo's second-person at the time, the old president's son-in-law Miya Arakawa, the biggest contributor to the establishment of Nintendo in North America, actually proposed the suggestion of selling the game business to Microsoft, and there were even a group of supporters.
This remark finally made Hiroshi Yamauchi unable to bear Arakawa, kicked him out of Nintendo, and then let Satoshi Iwada, who was only a minister at the time, take over the position of President Nintendo.
This is a very risky move, taking over the video game industry and the greatest company?
Can he do it?
Facts have proved that Iwada Satoshi is really the kind of person who can turn the tide and support the tide. The sales miracle of Wii and NDS has allowed Nintendo to answer the ranks of the Big Three again. The key role Iwada Satoshi plays can be said to be crucial.
Unfortunately, it was his untimely death.
As he thought about it, Jester called another phone number to the organizing committee. On the phone, Jester hoped that they would contact Satoshi Iwata. If the other party had time tomorrow, he wanted to meet with the other party and talk about some game development matters, and it was carried out as a game designer and game designer.
In fact, Jester still has some ideas about the Hal Institute.
Since no one wants to take over this institute now, he can take it over. In the original history, the hal institute did lack very famous works before being reorganized by Nintendo.
However, in the nine years of history, Nintendo reorganized the hal research institute and incorporated it into its own subsidiary. After Iwada became the director of the hal research institute at that time, the hal research institute really entered a period of product boom. At that time, they had made many classic games, and the most famous ones may be "Star Kirby" and "Nintendo Star Fight" that still had extremely strong competitiveness twenty years later.
These two games, like "Balloon War", were both works designed by Satoshi Iwada when he was still a designer.
On the next day, Iwada Satoshi, who had been sleeping all day long, finally responded to some vitality from the fatigue and time difference, received a notice from the GDC Organizing Committee. The founder of Mars Entertainment and the designer he admired very much, Jester Lee, hoped that he would have dinner with him later, and Jester Lee, also hoped that both sides would have a discussion on game development between designers and designers.
When Iwada Satoshi just received this notice, he thought he had auditory hallucinations.
He opened his eyes wide, opened his mouth wide, and asked again in disbelief. Then, after getting the answer that was exactly the same as last time, he realized that what he had just heard was real.
"Jest Lee's personal reception?"
"Is it Jester Lee who invited me to participate in the gdc?"
"But how could Jester Lee know about me, an unknown person? Logically speaking, there is no reason why I am being noticed by such a big man?"
Iwada Satoshi's mind became chaotic again. He could not think of how he was noticed by such a big man. His most famous thing was the "Balloon War" on the FC. However, in his opinion, this game is still a bit immature and naive, and there is no way to compare with those of the contemporary, Jester Lee's great works.
The meeting time was at 8 o'clock in the evening.
Because Jester has to deal with the other party’s affairs these days, he can only take some time to meet at eight o’clock, but despite all this, Jester still arranged an hour for the meeting, which is extremely rare.
Chapter completed!