Has senility finally caught up with Yamauchi? Amazing interview!
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CrimsonSkies
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As someone who has worked for a Japanese Company for the Past 5 years. This man is insane. That is all.
Riskbreaker
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lol..Awesome interview
edit: Fake...that sucks..
edit: Fake...that sucks..
Duck of Death
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:lol :lol :lol
YAMAUCHI AM P.I.M.P
It may be fake, but it's still glorious.
YAMAUCHI AM P.I.M.P
It may be fake, but it's still glorious.
Kobun Heat
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Hmm, Ralph Kramden's author bio bears some (more than coincidental?) relationship to my own.
kitchenmotors
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snapty00 said:
For once, I agree with you!
happyfunball
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DAMN! How can you not like this bastard? Huh? Makes me wanna get a GC just because of this mofo
Edit: fake...oh well if he was like that I would buy a DS or GC in a second
Edit: fake...oh well
if he was like that I would buy a DS or GC in a secondJustin Bailey
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ugh, you gotta at least try to make it seem real.
Nightbreeze
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:lol damn I wish that was real. "suck my tiny yellow balls." That would have been priceless.
johnjohnson
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:lol . Just :lol .
Quantum Mechanic
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I don't think it's fake. It just sounds like Yamma.
Yamma, please come back and stear Nintendo back to glory!
Yamma, please come back and stear Nintendo back to glory!
Happy Dia de los Inocentes everybody.
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brandonnn said:Happy Dia de los Inocentes everybody.
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Quantum Mechanic
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That appears to be just that particular writer's avatar.
Funky Papa
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LOL today is the spanish equivalent of April's fools day. Glad to see our fine devotion to this celebration hitting GAF with another outrageous prank :lol :lol :lol
Kobun Heat
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Yeah, I love those April Fools' jokes that fool absolutely nobody.
tehrik-e-insaaf
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I've actually had the honor to meet and interact with Yamauchi. He is very cordial and extremely intelligent.
I would argue that alot of the perception about him is a result of 1) mistranslation 2) fanboys who don't seem to understand that Nintendo isn't going to do what they want them to do 3) some mistakes he himself as made that he now regrets.
He isn't a perfect guy, but it is hard to dislike him if you have met him (imho).
I would argue that alot of the perception about him is a result of 1) mistranslation 2) fanboys who don't seem to understand that Nintendo isn't going to do what they want them to do 3) some mistakes he himself as made that he now regrets.
He isn't a perfect guy, but it is hard to dislike him if you have met him (imho).
Funky Papa
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Kobun's tag is specially hilarious on this thread :lol
Kobun Heat
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Eerily prophetic, yes. Maybe the creator of the joke was inspired by it?
SantaC
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Yamauchi may be crazy, but he would never bash the americans open like that especially since the western market is extremly important for Nintendo today. From a busniess standpoint it's not very smart to make comments like that, and if it's anything he knows it's business.
Also it isn't Mikami's fault that RE4 went into the hands of PS2. Clearly fake, but a good laugh :lol :lol
Also it isn't Mikami's fault that RE4 went into the hands of PS2. Clearly fake, but a good laugh :lol :lol
Legal Step
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Best fake interview ever!
Drinky Crow
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I read that and my first thought was "wow. Tim Rogers can't write satire well." You'd think a dedicated Japanophile like himself would at LEAST get the idioms right.
aerodynamik
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You're so bloody twisted.
Agent Icebeezy
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None the less, this dude is the shit
carbonbased
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It's too bad that isn't real. :lol
Parallax Scroll
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Bwahahaha
Quantum Mechanic
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I think the interview is real.
Hell, maybe because I want it to be real. Call me a Nintendo fanboy who considers Yamma his own particular guru.
Anyway, here are the reasons why despite all reason I think the interview is real-
1. It might be the latin equivalent of April's Fools but the interview is in English. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty average stuff, it's not Shakespeare, but I don't think it's the work of a foreigner either. So if it's a fake, I don't think it has a Spanish accent (awfully difficult to mock btw, everyone can easily mock most European accents but that one. And Scottish). But of course, the interview was supposedly conducted in Japanese. I'm confused now.
2. The interview is apparently taken from Wired. Those look like pages from Wired magazine. Relatively straightforward to fake, of course, but has anyone actually checked the issue the interview appears to be from?
3. It sounds like the Yamauchi we know and love. There are some outrageous quotes in there to be sure, but in almost all his interviews he's shocked someone. What does he say that is particularly shocking? That Kirby looks homosexual? Come on now, who here honestly doesn't think that Kirby is gay? And he's not bashing Kirby, he says it still is a popular character and uses it as an example of Iwata's skills. Frankly the one truly shocking thing I see in the interview is when he tells off the Microsoft delegation, and Ballmer and others of the MS high command are known for his arrogance. I'm sure Ballmer himself has told many people to suck his balls. Really, who hasn't. :lol
4. What could be a real slip of the tongue is his bashing of the Americans. But apart from them being fat and decadent he doesn't really say anything specially offensive, and the Japanese, at least the older generations, are racist. And what he says appears to be the opinion of most of America's so-called allies, ask any European and he will say something similar. And as people get older, they start to loosen their tongues and stop giving a shit about what the rest of the world thinks. Grandpas say the darndest things...
I say all this because I want the interview to be real and I'm aware my arguments could be considered wishful thinking. But until it's known for sure that it's a fake there's a ray of hope that it is not. Quite simply, Nintendo needs a PR man of Yamma's calibre. Reggie is a ant in the heap of shit compared to Yamauchi.
Hell, maybe because I want it to be real. Call me a Nintendo fanboy who considers Yamma his own particular guru.
Anyway, here are the reasons why despite all reason I think the interview is real-
1. It might be the latin equivalent of April's Fools but the interview is in English. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty average stuff, it's not Shakespeare, but I don't think it's the work of a foreigner either. So if it's a fake, I don't think it has a Spanish accent (awfully difficult to mock btw, everyone can easily mock most European accents but that one. And Scottish). But of course, the interview was supposedly conducted in Japanese. I'm confused now.
2. The interview is apparently taken from Wired. Those look like pages from Wired magazine. Relatively straightforward to fake, of course, but has anyone actually checked the issue the interview appears to be from?
3. It sounds like the Yamauchi we know and love. There are some outrageous quotes in there to be sure, but in almost all his interviews he's shocked someone. What does he say that is particularly shocking? That Kirby looks homosexual? Come on now, who here honestly doesn't think that Kirby is gay? And he's not bashing Kirby, he says it still is a popular character and uses it as an example of Iwata's skills. Frankly the one truly shocking thing I see in the interview is when he tells off the Microsoft delegation, and Ballmer and others of the MS high command are known for his arrogance. I'm sure Ballmer himself has told many people to suck his balls. Really, who hasn't. :lol
4. What could be a real slip of the tongue is his bashing of the Americans. But apart from them being fat and decadent he doesn't really say anything specially offensive, and the Japanese, at least the older generations, are racist. And what he says appears to be the opinion of most of America's so-called allies, ask any European and he will say something similar. And as people get older, they start to loosen their tongues and stop giving a shit about what the rest of the world thinks. Grandpas say the darndest things...
I say all this because I want the interview to be real and I'm aware my arguments could be considered wishful thinking. But until it's known for sure that it's a fake there's a ray of hope that it is not. Quite simply, Nintendo needs a PR man of Yamma's calibre. Reggie is a ant in the heap of shit compared to Yamauchi.
radioheadrule83
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saved for later. What I've already read is hilarious!
Though real Yamauchi was sometimes more scary than funny, I do miss his interviews..
Though real Yamauchi was sometimes more scary than funny, I do miss his interviews..