Rest in Peace Satoru Iwata

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has passed away - Nintendo Everything

- Worked in the HAL Laboratories, which brought us games such as Earthbound, the Kirby series and Super Smash Bros.
- He single-handedly recoded Earthbound to the SNES. Before it the coding was a mess, and his work on it allowed the game to be released.
- Transferred the battle programming of Pokémon Red and Blue to Pokémon Stadium... without any reference sheets.
- Created a compression and decompression code for Pokémon Gold and Silver. Before that Creatures Inc. had filled up the entire Game Boy cartridge with Johto alone. The code proved itself so godlike they could even add a trimmed-down Kanto region.
- Participated in the debugging of Super Smash Bros. Melee, fully removing all of the bugs in three weeks, allowing the game to come out without delays. This is also the group who had the insight to allow the infamous Wavedashing bug to stay in the game and mold competitive Melee scenes to this day.
- Caught on to the fact that the consoles market was fighting more and more for a smaller slice of a pie of hardcore gamers. Released the Nintendo Wii and DS to broaden the market and accept new players. It worked brilliantly.
- When the WiiU was doing poorly, he cut his own salary to make sure not a single lower-end employee was fired for what he believed to be his own mistakes.

If there was ever a man who deserved praises for what he did to the video-game community after his passing it is this guy.