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Offline Bill Aurion

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This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it!
« on: September 02, 2005, 12:55:47 PM »
Reggie had his month in May, and now it's Iwata-san's turn...There is no company president as charismatic and determined as he is to bring videogaming to a whole new level...

Iwata will be speaking at this year's Tokyo Game Show on September 16th at 11 AM, which corresponds to September 15th at 10 PM EST...IWATATON is coming!  Do I mean Revolution news?  Pfffff, who cares about that?  IWATATON is all about Iwata giving another fantastic speech about just what gaming is about, so show your support by using that right brain of yours to commemorate Iwata in the same manner we did Reggie...  

"People sometimes ask me what I did when I was hired at HAL. The answer is that I was a programmer. And an engineer. And a designer. And I marketed our games. I also ordered food. And I helped clean up. And, it was all great fun."

"The risks are always there, whenever we are taking some kind of new approach. But if we simply take the same attitude as before, well, we know that the gaming population is shrinking, and there is no bright future for the industry. And we really don't want to die slowly."

"We at HAL found a way to bring our idea to life. Our team believed deeply in the concept and we did not waver in our approach. So in this important sense, we at HAL - we're just like every one of you. Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we have different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us has the heart of a gamer."  
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it!
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2005, 12:58:38 PM »
IWATATON

I had to edit this post! Spectacular!
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2005, 03:17:24 PM »
Hey I'm in, I just wished I could get a photo where he is looking straight to the camera.
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2005, 03:35:38 PM »
I was about to suggest Iwata month in the avatar thread when I saw this and made a poor imitation of KN's avatar! AMAZING.
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2005, 03:50:49 PM »
I love it!
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2005, 04:21:48 PM »
I'll join!
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RE:This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2005, 04:25:44 PM »
IWATATON

I'll make an avatar or something in a minute!
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Offline Bill Aurion

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« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2005, 04:32:19 PM »
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2005, 04:46:46 PM »
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2005, 06:16:26 PM »
The Iwata Boat has set sail, time of arrival? IWATA TIME!
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RE:This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2005, 07:42:35 PM »
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IWATATON

I'll make an avatar or something in a minute!


Best image... ever!

Anyway, I might join in later... depends on if Duel Strike releases me from its stranglehold or not.
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RE:This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2005, 08:20:59 PM »
Iwata! Iwata! Iwata!

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Of course, these games themselves have become much bigger in several ways. That, in turn, requires bigger teams, bigger budgets, bigger challenges in meeting deadlines. This also means that big game companies are getting bigger - by consuming smaller ones.

On the other hand, what's more prominent in my thinking these days is how our industry is getting smaller. We are smaller in the amount of risk we're willing to accept. We are also smaller in how we define videogames. The list of genres seems fixed - shooters, sports, platformers, puzzles, and so on. When is the last time we invented a new genre? But as importantly, even within these genres, we have reduced the environments we use. The racing tracks, the sound tracks, the bosses, the heroes, are starting to look more and more alike
Hopefully the Revolution can change this for the better.

I'll change my avatar later - dibs on the one with him 20 years ago next to his motorbike
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2005, 08:37:54 PM »
YOU will say "WOW!"

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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2005, 09:11:10 PM »
the Iwata-Potter has arrived
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2005, 03:44:31 AM »
here come Iwata tingel here to start the revolution and be fruity
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RE:This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2005, 07:26:18 AM »
I may wait until he delivers before I change my avatar; anyways, I am kind of fond of the one I have right now.
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RE:This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2005, 08:01:19 AM »
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Hey I'm in, I just wished I could get a photo where he is looking straight to the camera.


How's this?

And what the hell, I'll participate too.
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Offline Bill Aurion

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RE:This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2005, 08:16:27 AM »
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I may wait until he delivers before I change my avatar; anyways, I am kind of fond of the one I have right now.

Iwata ALWAYS delivers...Now out, you heretic!
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RE:This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #18 on: September 04, 2005, 03:49:14 AM »
I was going to shop something, but then I remembered it's IWATA. Automatically gold.

I'm such a whore.
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #19 on: September 04, 2005, 09:10:29 AM »
I'm tired of changing my ava's for these themes.  This month is the same as last month, wagging dog tail month.
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Offline Bill Aurion

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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #20 on: September 04, 2005, 09:19:04 AM »
HERETICS, GET OUT!  I need none of this "HAR HAR I'm posting here to say I'm not changing my avatar" crap!

(Edit: I see you've changed your mind on your avatar...Good... )
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RE:This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #21 on: September 04, 2005, 04:08:38 PM »
Even at the height of tragedy, it is still Iwata time.
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #22 on: September 04, 2005, 05:30:51 PM »
I join.
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Offline Bill Aurion

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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #23 on: September 04, 2005, 06:09:35 PM »
Less than 11 days till IWATA TIME!
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RE: This month is Iwata Month, and there's nothing you can do about it! (IWATATON!)
« Reply #24 on: September 04, 2005, 06:17:13 PM »
i'll join too! ...just t hink..he knows what the c ontroller  looks like
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