History Creator / SatoruIwata

* BigGood: For Nintendo fans and Nintendo itself, when he was the global CEO of Nintendo.

** As mentioned above he was able to fix and refine the code for Pokemon Gold and Silver to the point he got the size compressed down enough Gamefreak was able to add in Kanto as a bonus when before they were struggling just to put in the new region of Johto in the very restricted space of a Gameboy cart and for the first PokemonStadium game he made the battle system code for that game in the space of a week.

* {{Catchphrase}}: In every Nintendo Direct he shows up, ''Directly to you.'' Complete with [[MemeticHandGesture its own pose]].

** The E3 puppet show may have been done that way to not show him in a badly deteriorating state of health, but it still was pretty funny. Even as he was dying he still wanted others to have fun.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: In his last act, he made ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker,'' which allows fans to make and enjoy levels inspired by all generations of {{Mario}} just like him in his youth.
** the E3 puppet show may have been done that way to not show him in a badly deteriorating state of health but it still was pretty funny and so even as he was dying he still wanted others to have fun.

A bile duct growth forced him to miss E3 of 2014 and is believed now to be the reason for the puppet show for Nintendo's E3 event so that people would not to see him in a badly deteriorated state of health, and despite surgery to remove the growth, [[http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-president-satoru-iwata-has-passed-away/ it ultimately cost him his life on July 11th, 2015]] at the age of 55. He will be missed dearly.

A bile duct growth forced him to miss E3 of 2014 and is believed now to be the reason for the puppet show for the E3 so that people would not to see him in a badly deteriorated state of health, and despite surgery to remove the growth, [[http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-president-satoru-iwata-has-passed-away/ it ultimately cost him his life on July 11th, 2015]] at the age of 55. He will be missed dearly.

A bile duct growth forced him to miss E3 of 2014, and despite surgery to remove the growth, [[http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-president-satoru-iwata-has-passed-away/ it ultimately cost him his life on July 11th, 2015]] at the age of 55. He will be missed dearly.

** As mentioned above he was able to fix and refine the code for Pokemon Gold and Silver to the point he got the size shrunk down enough Gamefreak was able to add in Kanto as a bonus when before they were struggling just to put in the new region of Johto in the very restricted space of a Gameboy cart.

A bile duct growth forced him to miss E3 of 2014, and despite surgery to remove the growth, [[http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-president-satoru-iwata-has-passed-away/ it ultimately cost him his life on July 11th, 2015]]. He was 55.

* MemeticHandGesture: Seen in the page image ([[http://abload.de/img/137789266587487int.gif animation visible here]]), done every time the word "directly" or "direct" (or in the Japanese versions, "chokusetsu", Japanese for "directly") is mentioned in a ''WebVideo/NintendoDirect''. (Other ''WebVideo/NintendoDirect'' hosts also do this, though.)

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: In his last act, he made "Super Mario Maker,'" which allows fans to make and enjoy levels inspired by all generations of Mario just like him in his youth.

* FamousLastWords: The last time he spoke to the public was when he addressed the complaints about
''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeFederationForce'': "Thank you for your feedback. We hear you and we are committed to continuing to meet your expectations."

* FamousLastWords: The last time he spoke to the public was when he addressed the complaints about ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeFederationForce'': "Thank you for your feedback. We hear you and we are committed to continuing to meet your expectations."

* ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'' (NES)
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'' (NES): NA release only. Series creator ''Creator/YujiHorii'' stated on Twitter that [[https://twitter.com/YujiHorii/status/620495404816203776 Iwata was in charge of localization programming.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Kirbys Adventure}}'' (NES)
* ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'' (SuperNES)
* ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' (GameBoy)
* ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' ({{Nintendo64}})
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' ({{Nintendo64}} and {{NintendoGamecube}})

* BenevolentBoss: When the Wii U underperformed and Nintendo lost a large amount of money, Iwata ''cut his own salary in half'' rather than lay off his own workers.

'''Satoru Iwata''' (December 6, 1959 -- July 11, 2015), former global president of Creator/{{Nintendo}} and former president of Creator/HALLaboratory. He started at HAL as a regular programmer, and was notable for helping create ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'', Kirby and for singlehandedly reprogramming ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' from scratch midway through development, rescuing the entire project when all seemed lost.

* BigGood: For Nintendo fans and Nintendo itself, being the head of the company's main branch presently.

During his tenure as head of HAL Laboratory, he was also responsible for porting the battle codes for the original ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games in order for them to be used in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' as well as compressing both ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' to allow enough room to include the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Kanto]] region. After attaining a high ranking position at Nintendo, he became its global president after Hiroshi Yamauchi went into retirement. Both the {{Wii}} and NintendoDS were promoted under his leadership with absolute full backing. He has since served as the executive producer of all Nintendo software, including outsourced projects.

'''Satoru Iwata''' (born December 6, 1959), current global president of Creator/{{Nintendo}} and former president of Creator/HALLaboratory. He started at HAL as a regular programmer, and was notable for helping create ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'', Kirby and for singlehandedly reprogramming ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' from scratch midway through development, rescuing the entire project when all seemed lost.

His identity as Nintendo's global president is cemented through ''Iwata Asks'', where he interviews key designers for upcoming games released on the Nintendo platform and as the host of almost every ''WebVideo/NintendoDirect'', which announces new games and information.

[[http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-president-satoru-iwata-has-passed-away/ He died on July 11th, 2015 from a bile duct growth]]. He was 55.

* TheRival: At his time as a programmer at HAL Laboratory, he saw himself as this to ShigeruMiyamoto, though it was completely one-sided.

'''Satoru Iwata''' (born December 6, 1959), current global president of Creator/{{Nintendo}} and former president of Creator/HALLaboratory. He started at HAL as a regular programmer, and was notable for helping create ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'', Kirby and for singlehandedly reprogramming ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' from scratch midway through development, rescuing the entire project when all seemed lost. During his tenure as head of HAL Laboratory, he was also responsible for porting the battle codes for the original ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games in order for them to be used in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'' as well as compressing both ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' to allow enough room to include the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Kanto]] region. After attaining a high ranking position at Nintendo, he became its global president after Hiroshi Yamauchi went into retirement. Both the {{Wii}} and NintendoDS were promoted under his leadership with absolute full backing. He has since served as the executive producer of all Nintendo software, including outsourced projects.

His identity as Nintendo's global president is cemented through ''Iwata Asks'', where he interviews key designers for upcoming games released on the Nintendo platform and as the host of every ''WebVideo/NintendoDirect'', which announces new games and information.

* BigGood: For Nintendo fans and Nintendo itself, being the head of the company's main brance presently.