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Re:Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf] by johladam on Sunday July 12, 2015 @08:12PM (#9875609)
It's really painful to hear something like this, Mario and Zelda was my childhood, and I play the most recent Animal Crossing on my 3DS still. I hope his family understands how many childhoods he impacted.

Funny picture, when asked to draw Kirby. Artists vs Programmers. Miyamoto, Sakurai and Iwata I believe. http://i.imgur.com/S5Cq9lT.jpg

Re:Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf] by Figs on Sunday July 12, 2015 @11:17PM (#9876179)
It's really hard to read the text in that picture because of the JPG compression artifacts, but I did my best to try to transcribe and translate it. I'm not a native speaker of Japanese though, so if anyone sees a mistake, please correct me!

From left to right:

桜井 政博さん Sakurai Masahiro-san

「星のカービイ」を考えましたスゴイ人! 開発スタッフの中ではいちばん若いけど、 おもしろいゲームを作ることなら、 だれにもまけない。 口数の少ないアイデアマン。

The amazing person who thought up Kirby's Dream Land! Although he's the youngest of the development staff, when it comes to making interesting games, he won't lose to anyone. An idea man of few words.

宮本 茂さん Miyamoto Shigeru-san

「スーパーマリオ」や「ゼルダの伝説」シリーズなどを作った。 有名な人!みんなもよく知ってるよね? 今回の「カービイ」でもプロデューサーを担当。

He made series such as Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda. He's famous! But you already knew that, right? For this Kirby, he took on the roll of producer.

岩田 聡さん Iwata Satoru-san

任天堂から発売されたゴルフゲームの、ほとんどを作ったエライ人! 「カービィ」では、 みんなを明るくはげましなから、プログラムもやってしまうプロデューサー。

He's the great person who practically made Nintendo's golf game! Due to everyone's enthusiastic encouragement, he was both a programmer and a producer for Kibry.

Re:Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf] by Camillo on Monday July 13, 2015 @03:29AM (#9876840)
Last one should be: "The amazing guy who wrote pretty much the entirety of Nintendo's golf game. For Kirby, on top of cheering everyone on as a producer, he ended up doing programming too."
Re:Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf] by Figs on Monday July 13, 2015 @04:37AM (#9876990)
Thank you for the correction. If you don't mind, could you please explain the grammar of "はげましなから" since it seems I was mistaken in interpreting that construction? (I thought it was "because of encouragement".) In particular, that な is confusing me now.
Re:Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf] by andycjw on Monday July 13, 2015 @07:47AM (#9877484)
you probably confused the 'nagara' in the end as 'kara', はげます(encouraging/cheering) ながら (while/on top of)
Re:Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf] by Gigablah on Sunday July 12, 2015 @08:37PM (#9875701)
Sakurai is left, Miyamoto is middle.