Pokémon Gold and Silver: How Satoru Iwata Saved Game Freak
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- It's common knowledge that Satoru Iwata is responsible for helping Game Freak to include the Johto and Kanto regions in Pokémon Gold and Silver. The full story, though, is even more impressive.
At a time when Game Freak was about to collapse under the weight of Pokémania, with far too many projects to sort through and organize, Satoru Iwata swept in to save the day. Fans of Pokémon across the world have this man to thank for translating the original Pokémon games (Red and Blue) into English, as well as helping to make Pokémon Gold and Silver technological powerhouses with extremely efficient code.
This video is designed as a sequel of sorts to our first video, about the life of Satoshi Tajiri. Much like Pokémon Gold and Silver, this video is made from content that we cut out of our original video, which you can probably tell as we explore the contributions of Shigeki Morimoto and the infamous Mew glitch on the success of the franchise.
Tackling Satoru Iwata's history is something that a lot of you have requested, and this is only the start. We're considering a series of videos entitled "How Satoru Iwata Saved..." because, to a certain extent, everything Iwata-San touched turned to gold.
In the meantime, if you haven't already check out our original video on Pokémon Red and Blue, and Satoshi Tajiri's childhood. If you HAVE already seen it, check it out anyway! Have a look at how much we've learned over the past six months of making videos, and how crummy our first attempt was.
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Now, about the endslate of this video. As we mentioned in a previous video description, we've been running into a bit of financial trouble recently after our artist Kotor, who freelances for a living, lost one of his biggest clients. As such, while we didn't really want to start a Patreon, we're hoping that maybe a few of you might like to chip in a bit to help keep us fed over the next few months while we try to bounce back. Put simply, we don't have the luxury of a lot of time to work on these videos instead of doing actual paid work, which is why this is our first video in April.
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Oh, and if you'd like to know where the information for this video came from, the majority of it comes from an Iwata Asks that was published by Nintendo for the release of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver: www.nintendo.c...
Some information was also taken from an interview with 4Gamer (translated by Silicon Era): www.siliconera....
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In memory of Satoru Iwata thank you.
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Susan Song can you make ori and the blind forest???do you think this would be a good idea?
R.I.P
Susan Song yeah ! Thank you Mr. Saturo Iwata! You gave me my childhood and my passion , you made me !!!!!😍😍😍😍😉
I still get a little emotional when I hear stories about this great man and all he gave gamers. Thank you, Mr. Iwata. You are still greatly missed.
Not to laugh at your pain, but this comment cracks me up...
Shawn Nird what
"What kind of president is this?!"
The best kind and he will be missed greatly.
A president a company or country wished they had.
I'm not crying, I just...got something round and pink in my eye...
This is why pokemon gold and silver was so good.
a president of hal laboratory, the reason why kirby is good too 🎷
Ikr
That's why heartgold and soulsilver became the best remakes of all time.
@@MemeRaider yeah I can't believe it's the games in the series that has the lowest sales
Iwata and Sakurai always worked close together. They also both seem to have been the greatest software engineers that Nintendo possessed. Coincidence? I think not.
Iwata's programming skills were phenomenal.
Iwata was Gamefreaks personal Mew. Was sort of present and no one was expecting anything but ended up showing himself when they really needed the help and helped Pokémon succeed. Amazing and also sort of fitting that Mew who was only vaguely in the game but was mystical, and far separated and apart from the game itself would randomly show up and become a real life myth within Pokémon community and spark the interest that would lead to its success.
tru dat
Was HE a superhuman (of some sort)?!
Sure. The equivalent.
u know in which language he coded except of assembly lang and c++?
There are two kinds of people in the world:
- Satoru Iwata
- Everyone else.
there is also reggie and miyamoto
@@user-bb2op9he1x Don't forget about Sakurai
This story should be a movie
YES! A docudrama on how Pokemon came to be!
Iwata's life should be a biopic
He also played a major role for the smash bros series and the mother/earthbound series.
Its also amazing how he restructured the company to focus on different goals then the rest of the industry which payed off with the DS and Wii. Also how he valued the employees so he was willing to slash his salary to make sure he didn't need to fire more employees. He was just a great all around person and is greatly missed.
+dave c You just basically listed a couple of future episodes for the show! They're a long ways off right now, but we'll be tackling all of these subjects eventually.
dave c
Even the kirby series but left when Kirby Air ride was made
And in the 2 Mario galaxys he was really involved
Satoru Iwata "Revolutionized" the gaming industry with the Wii and DS. The company began to see a spiral with the failure of the Wii U and Iwata's death, but thankfully, we got an equally amazing President of Nintendo, Tatsumi Kimishima. Iwata's legacy in the Switch is surely showing. I think the Switch will surpass the record breaking sales of the Wii.
I still miss that selfless, soft spoken programmer with a heart of gold.
-and silver-
*and a soul of silver.*
Holy cow...the original savior of Pokemon before Iwata saved the series...was a glitch. A glitch that triggered a hidden easter egg. Goddamn, someone call Vanellope from Wreck-It Ralph, Mew is clearly her ancestor.
RG 96 that would be funny
I mean, it's not entirely true. Pokemon had modest sales (not bad) and that mostly because they were released so late in a console's lifecycle. Pokemon's initial lack of success and support from Nintendo are blown out of proportions. The games did have development issues and delays, but that's partially because Game Freak almost ran out of money.
We know this because the first set of the TCG was released within the same year as the original Red and Green games, before Blue was even announced. Blue was initially a special release (and kind of a complete revamp, with updated art work and code) to celebrate hitting 1 million sales. TCG games aren't developped and printed overnight, they also take more than a year to properly develop. The anime premiered in April 1997 (6 months after the initial run of Blue that celebrated their 1 million sales). On average, the production schedule for an anime episode is 2 months, for a weekly series, that's usually a bit shorter, they have episodes finished well in advance and the entire thing needs to be planned, cast, written and storyboarded well in advance.
Pokemon as a franchise was already in full development before it even released, and it wasn't really a game on the brink of failure, it just had slow sales.
also, Iwata was the one who implemented the 2 region system in gold/silver/Crystal and also created the battle zone in Crystal. he remade Kanto in gold/silver/Crystal also created the transport system in less than a week from scratch all alone right before they where released.
The greatest software engineer who ever lived, and above all, a great man
The description of 'a map that was twice of the original games' doesn't cut it. Satoru Iwata's contribution to data compression made it possible to include the greatest feature a sequel title to have: access to a map of the original games where you could fight all the old major bosses, and ultimately, the player character of the original games. 18 years, and Pokemon fans have *still* been pining for this feature to come up again.
As much as I love the two-region approach, it was also kind of a detriment. Both Kanto and Johto ended up feeling under-baked in Gold/Silver, with the latter kind of feeling like its potential was a bit squandered.
This.
This is not actually true. All we know is that he did contribute some compression tools, but the compression used in Gold/Silver has a worse compression ratio than that used in gen 1. The algorithm was much faster to decompress though, that was the main improvement.
Rest in Peace, Iwata-sensei. You are badly missed.
Paolo Munoz yeah ! 😍😍😍😍😉
Come back Iwata Game Freak needs you more than ever now
Justin Arney I completely agree
What a great guy, and speaking of Easter Eggs, if you transfer a Pokémon from Pokémon Silver in the Virtual Console on the 3DS to Pokemon Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon, have it in your party, go to the GAMEFREAK building in Heahea City. Talk to Morimoto, and he’ll have chat with you about ‘this amazing came out and helped with finishing the game.’ So happy GameFreak still reference him after 2 years.
RIP Satoru Iwata. Your legacy between Nintendo and GameFreak will never be forgotten, especially because you’ve helped skyrocket Pokémon into basically the #1 ‘best selling RPG game’.
I don't think anyone who experienced this first hand will ever forget about Satoru Iwata. Man was a programming legend.
the industy still misses Satoru Iwata
Yeah thea whole Game industry, Pokemon world and Nintendo!
You guys always bring me to the verge of tears. I don't know why, the stories have happy endings, but I still feel the need to cry.
+Reiner Rynolds Wow, I'm glad our stuff resonates with you. Hope we don't cause you too much distress though!
I mean it's light-hearted, but for some reason it's emotional? But keep doing what you're doing :)
u feel sorry for everyone through out the story, with the pictures, music and narrating and the story, thats why u cry :) i cry as well, don't worry 😂
This channel deserves 1000x the subscribers it currently has, they're all fantastic!
Lukas Jenks yeah ! 😍😍😍😍😉
And just when gamefreak needed him the most, he vanished.
It's true.
True
Yeah that’s true
"GameFreak was in trouble."
Welcome to Summer 2019.
I half expect his ghost to be slipping laxatives into Masuda's meals for so egregiously defacing his crowning achievement as a programmer
He will be missed. This man has made a big impact on my gaming life, that's for sure.
Thank you Mr. Satoru Iwata. You will be missed. #RIPIwata.
RIP Satoru Iwata The Great! thank you for saving both Pokemon and Nintendo! I am here to pay you tribute! Imagine what happened without you! Your programming skill is so awesome! You are beethoven of Video Game world!
RIP Satoru Iwata The Great
“What’s the worst that could happen?” **Wild MISSINGNO appeared!**
I heard of this guy many years before when gold and silver came out. i knew he was the reason for making the best out of the little space of the gb cartridges but i didn’t know he did also the localization of red and blue and coded it the way to fit it in a n64.
You had 3 Jobs and you mastered all of them.
That’s what i call a success.
"Game freak was in trouble" Game freaks still in trouble end of video.
Thank you Iwata-san. Thank you for helping game freak (pokemon is my favorite franchise) thank you so much to be a great man, a real example for everyone! I just can't thank this man enough for all great things he did in his short live!
Satoru Iwata had a big impact on my childhood. He was the reason I was able to hold a DS and the reason we had a Gamecube and Wii laying near the television sets. He pretty much made my childhood with the amazing games and systems he launched. It’s a shame that he went the way he did, but he will leave a lasting impression and legacy on the gaming community.
R.I.P Satoru Iwata. The saver of Nintendo.
1959-2015. We will remember him forever.
Satoru Iwat was a hero.
A genius, skilled programmer, a visionary CEO, a big hearted man.
Modern programmers qualify his abilities nothing less than Prodigious.
An fierce CEO, a great programmer... A Gamer made a God.
Satoru was really before his time. The amount he has contributed to gaming in Nintendo is iconic. Rest in peace Satoru.
Wow, I don't even know where to begin saying good things about this one. Sorry for not commenting on the last episode, by the way. I saw it the day it was posted, but I didn't have time to comment, and I forgot to ever go back and do so like I meant to do.
I had heard enough before about Iwata to know he was awesome, but.....wow. He really was an inspiration. Given the impact Pokemon had on my childhood and my life in general, I'm sure glad he did save the franchise and make sure it was translated for western audiences. Not to mention helping Pokemon Gold and Silver to exist at all, since Pokemon Gold is the version I have easily the fondest memories of from my childhood. Come to think of it, Pokemon Stadium was also the very first Nintendo 64 game I ever bought....I guess I really owe Iwata a lot (and may be just a bit of a Pokemon fanatic :P).
The moral of this episode feels like something I needed to hear right now. I'll be graduating from college after tomorrow, and I've been more than a little scared about figuring out how to make the most of my life afterwards. I feel a lot more hopeful now that I'll be able to find some way to make the world a better place by doing the kinds of things I like to do....even if I'm not entirely sure what that entails just yet :P
I'll gladly contribute to your Patreon once I have a new source of income. My only job up to this point - and it didn't even pay that well to begin with - was doing my comic strip for the school paper, so.....well, you get the idea.
Oh, and for the record, I strongly disagree that your first video was "crummy." Honestly, to this day it's still one of my favorite episodes of Video Game Story Time, and I re-watch it all the time when I need a pick-me-up :)
+Nerd Chaos Don't worry about the Patreon if you're not in a position to support the channel, we completely understand. It'll just be an optional thing for those people who want to help and can do so.
I'm really glad you like our first video. I cringe a bit at the audio now because we've learned so much the past six months about making videos, but I'm glad it still holds up in your eyes.
I hope life has been going well for you, being some time out of college now. I'm in college myself, and I feel a bit anxious about what will happen after.
Mr Iwata is looking down from Heaven at his proud achievements
From all the nineties kids and generations to come, thank you Mr. Satoru
Pokemon generations 3-5 are considered by most fans to be the golden age of Pokémon and that the games declined in quality afterward. Iwata was the executive producer for gens 3-5. Coincidence...I think not!
Shortly before Pokémon go was released, he passed away.Just When the Pokémon series grows some very selfish habits of using child’s taste as a excuse to leave out content or properly balance a game and SM being very poorly developed code wise and most likely SWSH following the same. GF is lost without Iwata and it shows, Pokémon hasn’t had a Happy success since his death. The 2 switch games may sell like wildfire just means they have no incentive to close the massive divide between the fans and critics that grows wider every GF bonehead decision
Satoru was an amazing man in the right time to shine!! Legends like him are rare !!
If Satoru Iwata still here they would have worked more harder
Iwata is Legendary. He is crazy.. that's how u should work. He just loved what he was doing and he had much skills.
Scar after the release of Sword and Shield:
"Oh Game Freak, you're in big trouble, but this time Iwata-san cannot save you; and everybody knows WHY!!"
Game freak learned it's lesson from Satoru. Never forget, again! RIP SI - July 11th 2015
*I wish there were more Satoru Iwatas in the world.*
Pokémon Crystal is and will always be the best Pokémon game. Thank you Iwata. Rest in peace
Thank you, Mr. Iwata. You are STILL the best president Nintendo ever had. You are missed.
Rest in peace, Iwata-san.
If there is life after death I really hope satoru sees the success of his work
Rest In peace satoru~
Like we always says, Satoru Iwata is literally god among men
I kept expecting the ending to transition into an ad for Skillshare
Mr. Iwata thank you for saving my childhood!Such an amazing guy and I bet he didnt even ask for money when he fixed these games!
4:05
Mew the ancestor of all Pokémon species.
This series is great. It's like videogame Bob Ross
this is the one I've been waiting for!!! thank you so much!
+Salvador Avalos You're welcome, it was a great suggestion! :D
R.I.P. Satoru, without you my favorite Pokemon, Mawile, would have never existed. ^_^
A genius, and a kind man. He was too good to this world.
Iwata was a bloody genius, and will be sorely missed, not just because of his abilities but because of his heart. He knew gamers, because he was a gamer first, and nothing could deter that.
Rest in peace, Iwata-sama.
Why do I feel like this is a good bedtime story?
While I don't have disposable income myself just yet, I'd really love to support your channel, and have been doing as such by recommending your videos to as many people as I can! I really hope you guys manage to pull through!
+Alexander H. Thanks so much, we really appreciate that. It's totally fine for anyone who can't contribute financially, if you're sharing our videos, you're doing more than enough to help us out, and we really appreciate it!
Perfect video. Never stop doing what you do. I could wait years for another video and still be happy. Thanks :)
Man I probably wouldn’t even be a Pokémon fan if it wasn’t for that man,still think about it
Can't believe this channel has only 3k subs. Just binge watched all of them. I really like the way the stories are presented in a very simple, easy to digest form with very good artwork and calm, but very articulate narration. If only I have dispensable money to provide support.
Also I would love to see a bit longer video about Iwata and his deeds and achievements. I see him as a pinnacle of love both of his career, craft and expertise with the heart of a true gamer. I know numerous channels made a documentary about his life and work but I'm interested on how your style of storytelling fits into that.
And since Iwata is gone, now Game Freak are back to their struggling past as before.
You keep beating my brotherers carecter in pokemon peral.
rip saturo iwata we will cherish what you did to the company forvever
This channel is so god damn underrated, the work put into these episodes is amazing.
I would love to see this kind of thing done with the story of the Wii and DS and maybe the story of Mario and Smash Bros perhaps? I really love watching these.
I find it suspicious that Pokémon games quality was taken to question the second Iwata dies. He truly was the heart of the series and now the games are soulless
The true moral of the story: Satoru Iwata is the greatest person to have ever lived.
And this is why it sucks so much that Mr. Iwata died so young. Just imagine what other great stuff he would have done had he lived another 30 or so years.
I miss Iwata😢😭
This is why i LOVE watching these video; no matter how dark a situation might look, every story gets it's own happy ending.
+EmeraldBunny20 Glad you like it :)
yay! i was worried you had stopped making content. your stuffs awesome!
+Pressthebigredbutton Haha don't worry, you can't get rid of us that easily! This video took a lot more work than usual, though, and we've had other financial issues that has meant we had to delay it a bit. But we're still hard at work!
Video Game Story Time i did write another comment saying make a patreon after reading your discription
This is why Satrou Iwata was the best President for Nintendo
I just found this magnificent channel and I'm completely perplexed by your quality, keep up the wonderful work and thanks for the great content.
Iwata is missing. His dreams are missing. Nintendo changed again to the worse I think.
Iwata's creation "Nintendo Direct" is fading away...only mini directs. Nintendo got quiet again.
Thank you for this video. Your calm voice and cute illustrations are interesting to watch and listen!
These videos are so freaking wholesome omg, I am loving them ;-;
satoru was such a great person. rip
+Poke Kieran I just wish he'd lived to see the Switch launch, no doubt he'd have been thrilled by it.
defiantly.
Pokémon changed history, it shaped my life.
I was a fan of the Pokémon animated series since the early 2000's and have followed the Pokémon games since grade school with Pokémon Crystal being my first.
RIP Mr.Iwata 🕊️
If you made a Patreon, I would gladly support you!
+JoeyH3 Thank you. We really appreciate that :) details will be forthcoming, let us know if there's anything specific you'd like us to do for it.
Just keep making all these wonderful videos :)
JoeyH (\
This man was a champion.
One of the most inspirational, educational videos I ever seen.
I'll start studying programming a year from now, in order to start designing videogames...
And I swear to anything and anyone out
there, that I will learn to code and optimize with equal, if not even greater skill than this wonderful man.
Shit, was that inspiring.
Good luck...
Let's Go!
How’s it going
13:37 It's good to SHARE. We all different SKILLS. If that's the case... find people that appreciate what you're good at
I'm here expecting a skillshare AD!
Every video this channel makes is a perfectly simplified history lesson in why people create games. I can't wait until it picks up steam and has 50 thousand subs.
+Dan Johns Ha! I'm glad you like the videos! We're just happy that we have any subscribers at all! It's good to know our stuff is appreciated.
Pokemon Gold and Silver were and will always be the best version of Pokemon ever created.
He was gone way too soon. Rest in peace Mr. Iwata!! You are dearly missed!
And thus with Pokémon saved, the franchise became one of Nintendo's biggest money-earners ever, giving them a nice nest egg when times were tough by the power of Satoru Iwata.
Seriously though, you have to wonder how Iwata did it.
Seriously though, I wonder how life for Nintendo would have been without Pokemon, especially during the wiiu era. You never know how your actions will affect you later in life.
That best part is that he probably played Pokemon and liked it, and when he found that the sequel was having problems he stepped in to help, just so he could play that sequel ASAP, because in his heart he was always a gamer.
Jeezuz! It is beautiful, i almost shed a tear.
Thanks Satoru Iwata!
4:15 I love how Charmander is like, "Huh? What's this thing?"
How Kirby became the greatest smash character?
Or why kirby was pink
Hell no lol
rest in peace my man, you saved my favorite pokémon game
Lovingly produced videos on the gaming franchise I love the most...thank you for making these
Thank you for watching! :D
Mew saved pokemon. That's why i love mew. She's cute, (i call her a she) and she saved the gaming world, along with iwata. I hope rainbow road is treating you well iwata.
In loving memory of Satoru Iwata, we will miss you.
May you Rest in peace saturu iwata. You were a good man...
Thank you,dearest condelence to saturo iwata he has assisted the company of my favorite franchise,forever i shall recall of him
I wonder if Gamefreak still has 4 clueless programmers to this day
Kanto wouldn't be in Gold and Silver if it wasn't for this man. Yeah sure, it's just a game. But to me, this man is a hero.
when in doubt: Satoru Iwata
*sigh* if only he was still alive to save Sw and Sh