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Satoru Iwata

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Satoru Iwata at GDC 2011

Satoru Iwata (岩田 聡 Iwata Satoru; December 6, 1959, Sapporo, Japan – July 12, 2015, Kyoto, Japan) was the fourth CEO of Nintendo. He first worked at HAL Laboratory as a freelance programmer. [1] He went full-time after completing college. [1] He became president of Nintendo after Hiroshi Yamauchi retired in 2002. He became Nintendo of America's CEO in 2013. [2]Iwata died of a bile duct tumor at age 55.

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