Nintendo chief Iwata and designer Itoi talk shop over dinner

Been awhile, kids — it’s your favorite Linde, freshly returned from the barbaric wastes of Hungary, where goose liver serves as both key component to every meal and a common substitute for drinking water. Them folks are crazy about their goose liver. When I stepped off the plane in Seattle I made tracks for the nearest vat of soiled bacon grease, dunked my head in, and gargled our national anthem. Uh’merrica!
Anyways, you might be wondering how I so swiftly recovered from a half day’s travel and the ensuing jet lag without the traditional meth bender to right my internal clock. The secret is this: intellectually stimulating gaming conversation between Mother creator and renowned novelist Shigesato Itoi and Satoru Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo. Their discussion over dinner was recorded and transcribed, and in the first two selections of what will eventually become an eleven article series, talk up Miyamoto’s […]

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