No More Tutturu☆ for Yamauchi: Hiroshi Yamauchi Dead at 85
Neogaf is probably the best English source for this right now or i'd link something else: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=681229
it wasn't even on wikipedia seconds after it happened like everything else
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Google Translate: The 19th, Nintendo has announced Yamauchi 溥氏 of former president has died in the morning at the same day by adviser. Was 85 years old.
i thought he was 130 and that he wouldn't die until the moment he kicked the last pile of dirt onto Sony's grave
i didn't even like the Mauchi until recently when he seemed more like a cranky grandpa than a mafia boss, but now i'm pretty sad about it. Even if he did run things like yakuza, even if the whole Yokoi thing was suspect, even if he said people who play rpgs are losers, he was the Mauchi. Prodded along by Gumpei Yokoi's toys, seeing the success of Miyamoto's stubborn monkey, he had a vision for a video game company i've usually liked more than the other video game companies throughout the years. He built that empire with his gnarled fists.
i guess the obvious question is now that the largest shareholder of Nintendo is gone, what's going to happen? Is Nintendo still going to be able to tell shareholders to fuck off? Is this the breach in the wall that brings it all down? is this the real actual beginning of the end this time for real
man... poor old mauchi
