I just FINALLY beat Super Mario 3D Land on my 3DS. Bowser was a really
tough bastard in this one. He was determined to make me really fight to
save that Princess but, saved her I did. It is a fitting tribute to Yamauchi-san, who passed away today at age 85.
Also, this quote of his from an article about him the New York Times today was rather fitting, I think...
In
one of his last interviews, with the magazine Nikkei Business in 2003,
Mr. Yamauchi offered a longer view of the gaming market. At the time,
Nintendo was being pummeled by Sony’s immensely popular PlayStation 2
console. But he scoffed at suggestions that the battle for supremacy in
gaming was over.
“That’s absolutely wrong; the gaming wars, they
will never end,” he said, adding: “That’s just not how this business
works. Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring.”
^^^Well-said, sir. May the competition never end, lest innovation be stifled.
- Lord Publius
According to the Wikipedia article on Yamauchi-san, he was also a Master-level player of the classic board game Go. One wonders why Nintendo never made a video game of it... I would certainly play that title, as I detailed in this earlier blog post here:
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