@Dono & M.Storm  
I’ll think of him anytime I play Balloon Fight, Kirby, or EarthBound.

R.I.P. Mr. Iwata

May he fly happily through out equestria,rest in peace.

@Master Fox
 
Pity they can’t animate the Pokemon Adventures manga. That was awesome. Koga using a Muk as battle armour, Lt Surge using Voltorbs as ammo, Sabrina being a dark magic girl…

@Master Fox  
I know, that was one of the default names in the first game, I recall. “Ash” was another default name.

@Beau Skunky  
Red is the original Player Character default from the first game. So they tried something. People wish they didn’t make it so short.

@Master Fox
 
Interesting. Wouldn’t have thought that they turn this story into an episode.  
Usually the Pokémon Anime is not so daring. Just watched the german version of it and they speak completely naturally about death and even said that Cubone’s mother was “killed”.  
That’s uncommon nowadays, especially for german dubs.  
And Reina is voiced by the german VA of Fluttershy. :D

@Master Fox  
Really? I didn’t know they did one of “Red,” instead of Ash.  
Isn’t Red the one from SSB Brawl?

@CMC Scootaloo  
I think that Gif is from the Pokemon anime about red. looks it up Yea, Pokemon Origins which is a 4 episode mini series all about Trainer Red. 2nd episode has the cubone scene.

@Flammie
 
Is this….. the story about the ghost in Lavender Town turned into an episode of the Anime?!  
From where is this .gif?

 
When I have nothing left to feel.  
When I have nothing left to say  
I’ll just let this slip away.
 
I feel these engines power down.  
I feel this heart begin to bleed  
as I turn this burning page.
 
Please forgive me if I bleed.  
Please forgive me if I breathe.  
I have words I need to say.  
Oh so very much to say.
 
And whose life do I lead?  
And whose blood do I bleed?  
Whose air do I breathe?  
With whose skin now do I feel?
 
I’m supposed to walk away from here.  
I’m supposed to walk away from here.
 
And whose life do I lead?  
Whose blood do I bleed?  
Whose air do I now breathe?  
I’m convinced there’s nothing more.
 
The day you died I lost my way.  
The day you died I lost my mind.
 
What am I supposed to do?  
Is there something more?
 
The engines power down.  
Like a soldier to his end I go.  
Because I’m convinced  
that there is nothing more.
 
and whose life do I lead  
and whose air do I breathe?  
With whose skin and whose blood do I feel?
 
What happens now?  
Have I done something wrong?
 
Forgive my need to bleed right now.  
Please forgive my need to breathe  
But I’ve so much to say  
and it wouldn’t matter anyway.  
You’re not here to hear these words that I must say  
and I’m convinced inside  
that there is nothing more.
 
Whose life do I lead?  
Whose air do I breathe.  
Whose blood do I now bleed?  
With whose skin now do I feel?
 
I have nothing left to say.  
I have nothing left to feel.  
Am I supposed to let this go now,  
let darkness come and take you away?
 
”VNV Nation - Forsaken”
 
Thank you Iwata!

 
I still can’t believe he’s gone. It’s gonna be hard to watch a future Nintendo Direct without him. May he rest in peace in the Nintendo Heavens.

Thank you, Mr. Iwata. :’)  
Thank you for everything.
 

U.I.P.  
Understand In Peace

I think I understand now, Mr. Iwata. I think I understand.

Sooooo…mods…admins
 
Feature?
 
Yes? No? Maybe?

@TexasUberAlles  
I can’t point at this any harder without causing myself bodily harm. XP

@TexasUberAlles  
Agreed…

Man, this really sucks; all the subhuman bastards in positions of corporate power in the world, and we lose a genuinely cool and decent guy who sincerely loved his company and his customers and always tried to do right by them both. We needed about ten thousand more of Iwata, not one less.

@Zebasiz  
A majority of Directs are silly, with a handful of straightforward talky ones for lack of time to goof off. However, most of the silly parts are very brief like the bits in the first Smash Direct last year.

@Japanese Teeth  
@SuperDEF  
If I’m remembering correctly. It started in a Nintendo Direct a couple of years ago. After talking about a Donkey Kong game, the camera cut back to Iwata just holding a bunch of bananas, not moving, and then jump cut to him facing the camera again and talking about the next game. No acknowledgement of the strangeness at all.
 
He did a couple of other things like that in the Direct, such as suddenly wearing a leather jacket when he re-appeared on camera, etc.
 
Since it became a bit of a running joke online, some of the others in the company started doing the silly as well. Like [I think] his translator doing the fruit thing, only with a tangerine or somesuch.
 
Essentially: Just a bit of non-sequitur that the internet found funny, and so they rolled with it~

@Master Fox  
Well, alot of people I know don’t know who “Satoru Iwata” is, and just either never played a Nintendo game, or aren’t “geeky/curious” enough to find out who the people who make them are. (Or read the credits.)
 
I’ve had to explain to some before who “Shigeru Miyamoto” is, and such.