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The Kit & Krysta Podcast

116: This Advice from Satoru Iwata Changed Our Lives

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

Leisure, Video Games, Technology, Society & Culture

4.7545 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring this episode. Visit http://www.squarespace.com/KitKrysta and get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code KITKRYSTA
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Hello and welcome to episode 116 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today, we'll be sharing with you a fond memory we both have of Satoru Iwata. We were so lucky to have worked under Mr. Iwata when we were at Nintendo and it might surprise you how often we got to see Mr. Iwata. He was consistently in our office and we spent a lot of time one-on-one with him. One of the many wonderful things about Mr. Iwata was he would not only talk to us about the Nintendo business but he would often share with us his own life philosophies. We learned so much from him and we still hold his lessons near and dear to our hearts to this day. Also in this episode, we react to the latest round of Switch 2 rumors and we share our impressions of the latest round of indie games that have come out on Nintendo Switch. We wrap it all up with some great questions from our Patreon subscribers. All this and much more is coming right up!

0:00 - May Spoilercast revealed!
15:41 - The most important advice Mr. Iwata ever gave us
35:42 - Drafting our dream Nintendo 64 games into NSO
49:48 - Games we are playing (Another Crab's Treasure, Surmount, Eiyuiden Chronicle, Wario Land 4)
1:14:04 - News news news (Switch 2 rumors, Paper Mario TTYD framerate, no Blizzcon in 2024)
1:33:20 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers

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today we are going to be sharing with you some of the great life advice that we got from

0:45.4

Satura Awada himself personally.

0:48.0

The man himself.

0:49.1

It's kind of amazing that we were able to have this relationship with Mr. Awada, so we're

0:52.7

going to tell you all about that in this episode.

0:55.6

But before we go into that, we'd like to say thank you to Square Space for sponsoring

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this episode.

0:59.4

That's right.

0:59.9

Yes.

1:00.5

We get some questions from time to time of, you know, we know that you got to know

1:05.8

Mr. Awada a little bit.

1:07.5

Yeah.

1:08.1

In kind of a more intimate sense than, you know, just, you know, in a big meeting or just seeing him, you know, walk down the hall. Like, we had private meetings with him. He would come to our office quite often. So very glad to share some of that wisdom that he shared with us. Exactly. I think it's something that you can apply just to your life in general. Yeah. And it's something that's really stuck with us for, and it will probably stick with us, probably for our whole lives. Right. Even when we talk to other people that have had the great opportunity of working closely with Mr. Awada, like Reggie, our great mentor, you know, he always brings up stuff that Mr. Awada has taught him, and I just feel very lucky to be in like that circle of just the great

1:45.2

of water knowledge that's been passed down so yeah that's right we have some great

1:51.2

stuff on our YouTube channel which you should check out we have continuing to post our

1:57.3

game collection boxes and boxes of games just come in and out of the studio. It's ridiculous. One day a box goes out, the next day another box comes in. Every day it's like, I brought these games back and then I get another text message from you. Oh, I've found the other games. I've boxed up the next section of this collection to show. It's crazy. Well, it's good for me on multiple levels.

2:19.2

I like showing it off.

2:33.8

And on the other hand, it's making me get more organized. That's true. And it's not that it was a total mess before, but there were some things. It was like, oh, why is this in this box? Yes. Let's get this in order. Exactly. So I gotta make sure I got it all right before I bring it in. Right.

2:34.3

So we are sharing our GameCube collection.

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