Former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi believed that if the company allowed the licensing of pornographic games, the company's image would be forever tarnished.

However Nintendo of Japan's president Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto eventually disagreed in releasing it believing it would be too similar to the Super Mario 25th Anniversary game released in 2010.

* December 6 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese president of Nintendo

The game's music, later re-used and arranged in games such as Super Smash Bros. Melee, was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka, who later became president of Creature Inc., a subsidiary of Nintendo that owns one-third of the copyright regarding the Pokémon franchise.

In 1986, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi noted that " Atari collapsed because they gave too much freedom to third-party developers and the market was swamped with rubbish games.

Keynote speakers included Sega of America, Inc. president and CEO Thomas Kalinske ; Sony Electronic Publishing Company president Olaf Olafsson ; and Nintendo chairman Howard Lincoln.

" Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said not to think of them as remakes.

Hiroshi Yamauchi, then president of Nintendo, wanted a Mario game to be on the Game Boy, and ordered Yokoi to create the game with his development team, Nintendo Research & Development 1.

By early 1988, there were over 1 million Fun Club members, which led then-Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa to start the Nintendo Power magazine.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated that they designed the Wii U to cater to a core gamer who is between the casual and hard-core categories.

In 1970, Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo at the time, came to a hanafuda factory Yokoi was working at and took notice of a toy, an extending arm, which Yokoi made for his own amusement during spare time as the company's janitor and machine maintenance man.

* Harley Quinn introduced Martin Tremblay, president of Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment, at the Nintendo Press Conference at E3 2012 where Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition was introduced for the WiiU.

George Harrison, the senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications of Nintendo of America Inc. stated " those precious gems Red and Blue have evolved into Ruby and Sapphire.

FireRed and LeafGreens connectivity with the Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter was heralded by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata as being able " to enhance head-to-head battles, exchange of information, and communication with others.

He was the third president of Nintendo, joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002, to be succeeded by Satoru Iwata.

In 1949, Yamauchi's grandfather, the incumbent president of Nintendo, suffered a stroke.

As he had no other immediate successor, he asked Hiroshi to come immediately to Nintendo to assume the position of president.

On May 31, 2002, Yamauchi stepped down as president of Nintendo and was succeeded by the head of Nintendo's Corporate Planning Division, Satoru Iwata.

* Minoru Arakawa, former president of Nintendo of America

The current president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, was a former president of HAL.

In January 2010, Nintendo Executive Satoru Iwata stated that the game would be coming out at some time in 2010.

The game was first announced in a 2002 Nintendo press conference in Tokyo, with the announcements made by Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata.

Satoru Iwata, the current CEO of Nintendo, claims that this philosophy is still part of Nintendo as it has been passed on to the disciples of Yokoi, such as Miyamoto, and it continues to show itself in Nintendo's current use of technology with the Nintendo DS handheld system and the newest home gaming console, the Wii.

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata attributes the success of the games to this contest.

Regarding the European launch, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said:

During the Nintendo Direct Pre E3 2012 conference, Satoru Iwata confirmed that the circle pads that featured on previous prototype models had been replaced with clickable analog sticks, stating that the circle pads were more suitable for a portable medium.

* Gamespy: Nintendo's New Direction-A discussion with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata

** Nintendo keynote speech: " The Heart of the Gamer " by Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo.

As for the future of the Super Smash Bros. series, Nintendo and HAL Laboratory's President Satoru Iwata, during the Nintendo E3 2005 press conference, promised an online iteration of the game would come to Nintendo's video game console, Wii.

* Satoru Iwata, President and CEO of Nintendo

However, plans to release the Wii in China were officially announced by Satoru Iwata on October 28, 2007, but they were only available in Hong Kong, under the Nintendo brand.

* Nintendo executive and design staff-Shigeru Miyamoto ( most commonly referred by NGC as ' Shigsy '), Hiroshi Yamauchi ( NCL's former President, who the magazine regularly called absolutely terrifying ), Satoru Iwata, David Gosen ( former CEO of Nintendo of Europe-the magazine claimed he was a homicidal robot named " Go-Sen " who would always say " This year is a good year to buy a Nintendo product or calendar "), and Reggie Fils-Aime ( referred to as a frightening man ogre who could crush you with his bare hands-in one issue a cut-out cat mask adorned with Reggie's face was included in the magazine to frighten other cats ).

* Iwata asks-Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon at Nintendo of America.

In 2000, Iwata took a position at Nintendo as the head of its corporate planning division.

In October 1992, a staff writer of the UK publication Nintendo Magazine System said that Kid Icarus was " pretty good fun ", but did not " compare too well " to other platform games, owing in part to its " rather dated " graphics.

However, the title was said to be in production without the approval of Nintendo, and Factor 5 cancelled multiple projects following the closure of its American branch in early 2009.

Yokoi opted for red LEDs because they were the cheapest ; Nintendo said a color display would have been prohibitively expensive.

Eurogamer said the game was " still as playable, addictive and maddening as it was back in 1990 " but criticized Nintendo for re-releasing classic games as standalone titles in the Classic NES Series instead of as a compilation, like Atari's Atari Anthology or Midway's Midway Arcade Treasures.

" GameSpy said that the game features " great visuals, imaginative game design and some classic Nintendo magic.

Luigi's name is said to have been inspired by a pizza parlor near Nintendo of America's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, called " Mario & Luigi's ".

The controls were praised for their precision and were said to be more intuitive than Acclaim's earlier well-received Nintendo 64 FPS Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.

Sakamoto also said Nintendo approached another company to make an N64 Metroid, but the offer was declined as the developer felt they could not make a game that could be up to Super Metroids standards.

Nintendo Power said that the game was " an entertaining and natural step in the franchise's evolution ," and awarded it the Nintendo Power Game of the Year Award for 1988.

Nintendo Power gave the game a perfect score, and said the graphics were of " 3-D perfection " and the controls and game mechanics " rival those of any GCN racing game ".

Nintendo Power said that the game was " tons of fun ".

He said that it is bulky and heavy when attached to the Nintendo 64 controller, but that " he trade-off was actually worth it ".

" Even though GamesRadar liked the game's quality, they said that Nintendo should have " the experience last longer.

Video game magazine Edge said that Turok contradicted the prevailing notion at the time that only Nintendo could create superior games for the console.

Polak said that the game proved the supremacy of the Nintendo 64's graphics in the console market.

When asked about whether or not the game would be released on the Wii's Virtual Console or the Nintendo DS, Star Fox designer Takaya Imamura said " Probably not.

The story left a door open for a sequel ( Mother Brain is temporarily defeated but her return was said to be inevitable, and Captain Nintendo vows to stop her when the time comes ).

In the Nintendo GameCube remake of Resident Evil, producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi said the team wanted Jill to be " a little cuter " so that " her action and atmosphere has charm ".

Nintendo said yes, and San hired chip designers and made the Super FX chip ( originally codenamed by them the “ MARIO chip ”).

:" It was tough for me to see that every time I made a new game, people automatically assumed that a sequel was coming ," said Sakurai, in an interview with Nintendo Dream, two weeks after he resigned from HAL Laboratory.