Pokemon Gold and Silver was originally only going to be the Johto region. This is the guy that single-handedly comes in and compresses the entire game in his spare time. Just because he wants to fit Kanto in for the players as well.

Salvaged Earthbound by rebuilding its coding from scratch.

Integral part of coding for Pokemon Stadium, Super Smash bros, Ballon Fight, and Kirby games.

Joined HAL labs in 1983 out of university. By 1993 he became president of the company.
Joined Nintendo in 2000, and became the first president outside the Yamauchi family in 2002.
(rapid rises like this don't happen in Japan)

Took massive leaps of faith with the DS and Wii, and managed to outsell psp, ps3, 360 coming off the poor sales of the gamecube.

Salvaged the 3DS which early on was not selling at all.

Decided to opt out of E3 conferences and instead created Nintendo Directs.


But it is fun watching people who haven't done jack shit with their lives try to shit up a thread about his death.

I raise my mushroom to him, on this day.