7月11日，任天堂(Nintendo)官方发布讣告，社长岩田聪（Satoru Iwata）因癌症去世。
岩田聪大家可能都不太熟，但是他所在的公司任天堂，大家想必都十分熟悉。至少任天堂出的游戏大多数人小时候都接触过，像《超级马里奥(Super Mario)》、《口袋妖怪（Pokemon）》、《魂斗罗（Contra）》等等...
另外，像红白机（FC, family computer）
GB（GameBoy）
NDS（Nintendo Dual Screen）
这些都是任天堂的产品，如果你都没有印象的话，前几年特别火的体感游戏机wii也是任天堂的产品。
说到游戏的历史，任天堂不知道要比索尼的PS或微软的Xbox早多少年。
下面小编就盘点一下任天堂游戏的经典款：
《超级马里奥》
《超级马里奥》可以算得上是任天堂的本命游戏，1985年FC上的初代马里奥开拓了任天堂的一代霸业，奠定了之后三十年的成功基础。
从系列正传到赛车网球运动会各种外传，马里奥各种相关作品达到百部以上，累计销量超过五亿套，是吉尼斯世界纪录认证的世界第一销量游戏系列，传奇，时代，经典... 任何赞美之词用来形容这个系列都不过分，而我们也完全无法想象没有马里奥的任天堂会是什么样子。
《魂斗罗》
《魂斗罗》是Konami于1987年至今在大型游戏机和游戏主机上推出的一系列卷轴射击游戏。魂斗罗的故事根据著名恐怖片《异形(Alien)》改编，人物原型来自著名影星施瓦辛格和史泰龙。1987年第一款魂斗罗诞生在名为Jamma的街机上。游戏名称的含义是“具有优秀战斗能力和素质的人”，它是对最强战士的称呼。
对于出生在80年代的中国玩家，最早接触的《魂斗罗》应该是从FC平台的移植版开始的。双人合作过关的无限趣味至今依旧荡漾在玩家的心头，童年时期一下课就急冲冲地往有FC游戏机的同学家里跑的情形也历历在目。自从电脑模拟器出现后，不少玩家也经常籍此回味《魂斗罗》，回味童年的无忧。
用科技播客Engadget中文版总编Richard Lai的话来总结，任天堂游戏的主要特点就是“simple, fun and cute”。
One thing that Iwata had stuck with is to keep games simple and also to keep them cute. Because what I notice recently is that when people go visit these retro gaming shops, you know, shops that store a lot of the old retro gaming cons原由网oles. Before they enter, usually the girls or the wives would hesitate as they would think it’s gonna be very boring for them. But when the girls actually go in, they actually end up seeing the old Nintendo console and they actually enjoy playing it. And to the point that they actually end up buying some of these old games from Nintendo and they end up doing more shopping than the other half. So it’s very interesting to see that under Iwata’s insist on keeping games simple and fun and cute. And compared to the other games that we see these days which are graphically iwww.58yuanyou.comntense, I think this is what really makes Nintendo stand out.
岩田聪对于任天堂来说是什么样的存在呢？有人形容岩田聪是任天堂的灵魂，岩田聪自己也自称是骨灰级游戏粉：“In my heart, I am a gamer”。
他是任天堂公司的首位外姓领导人，他也是NDS的缔造者，Richard仅举一例来形容岩田聪的事迹。
He’s a very smart guy. He’s actually, he’s not just a programmer but also pretty much one of the best in the industry, because in the past, at his previous company, he once managed to port one of t//www.58yuanyou.comhe original versions of Pokemon to the Nintendo 64 in just about a wevijpgXCMdfek and he still managed to compress so much data that they had more space to put enough data, so that’s one of the many legends of Iwata.
与其他平台的游戏相比，任天堂的游戏显然不够暴力、血腥，自然也少了很多卖点。不过岩田聪一直坚持“母亲至上主义”，即不追求机器性能，而追求母亲满意。因此游戏机不能给母亲收拾家务增添麻烦，另外游戏要满足每一位家庭成员的喜好。
Well, the beauty of keeping these games simple is that it definitely appeals to a bigger audience. Because usually the graphically intense games end up tend(ing) to be more violent, because some people wanted the realism, so they want to //www.58yuanyou.comsee more war, they wanna feel what they normally don’t feel. Whereas Nintendo, I think the only criticism I can give is that it’s so easy to replicate on the smart phone gaming business, that they end up losing a big chunk of business to the smart phone world, because the developers see that as being the bigger opportunity and because duplicates are obviously so easy to make, so they end up choosing the other platform instead of the closed system.
他最大的成就是什么？
Just to keep games simple, keep gaming fun, cute and family friendly.
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Thank you Iwata, you've made so many people happy.
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