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		kridsdale1 on Sept 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda So... I think a few of Nintendo's star players are (and were) coders as well as designers going back to the assembly days.

PetitPrince on Sept 22, 2020 [–]

Late Satoru Iwata famously coded Pokemon Stadium battle system without design document, only by looking at the gameboy source code. He later became Nintendo CEO.

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