{"id":138,"date":"2016-03-17T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/?p=138"},"modified":"2016-03-17T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:32:51","slug":"satoru-iwata-1959-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/17\/satoru-iwata-1959-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Satoru Iwata 1959-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started to write about Satoru&#8217;s passing last year, \u00a0trying to put my thoughts down about someone who has been very influential to the games industry, being only\u00a0at the time\u00a0the fourth person in history to have held the title of President of Nintendo, but also on a personal level, from his work on the DS, Gamecube and Wii all of which have been regarded by me as pretty special. \u00a0For some reason I never quite finished it, and it sat languishing in my draft queue for this site.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I was finding it hard to do justice to my tribute to the man, but this video from the GDC Awards seems to succinctly capture what I was trying to say myself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Satoru Iwata Game Developers Choice Awards Tribute\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9YG9INjO91Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to write about Satoru&#8217;s passing last year, \u00a0trying to put my thoughts down about someone who has been very influential to the games industry, being only\u00a0at the time\u00a0the fourth person in history to have held the title of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3ms.anothercastle.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}