Before Satoru Iwata became the President of Nintendo, before HAL Labs, even before his Commodore days while attending university, he found his love of computer games in a subway station in Sapporo, Japan. It was the mysterious "Game 31" which we know little about, but I’ve decided to attempt to recreate it on the Commodore 64 anyway. Learn a bit about Mr. Iwata’s early life, as we look into a math "number-crunching" game that sparked a love of gaming in someone that went on to make a very large impact on Commodore, Nintendo, and the video game industry at large.
Download "Game 31" for C64: https://8bitshowandtell.com/downloads/game31.d64
The Impact Of Iwata: https://www.nintendoforcemagazine.com/product/The-Impact-of-Iwata-Hardcover-Book
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Index:
0:00 Satoru Iwata’s 8-Bit Era
3:05 I’ve been meaning to make a video…
4:00 The Impact of Iwata: A Reading
7:42 More ideas about Game 31
10:45 My take on Game 31, constraints
14:31 Playing Game 31
18:50 Code Walkthrough: one-time init, instructions
23:35 Initialize each game, draw board
27:58 Take turn, partial "AI" explanation
35:35 Move validation, Win, Lose state
38:35 More "AI" demonstration in game
43:26 The "AI" spreadsheet
46:57 Final thoughts; thanks!
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