Was his passing announced before after the markets closed? The broader-based TOPIX took a major fall Friday, closing at 1,975.48, down 15.31 points or 0.77 percent. Back to you Thalia.
Rich On Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 8:23 PM danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote: > [polygon] > > NES and SNES creator Masayuki Uemura dies at 78 > > Uemura held a position at Ritsumeikan University until his death > > The lead architect of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo > Entertainment System, Masayuki Uemura, has died. The Ritsumeikan Center > for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University announced Uemura's death on > Thursday, saying he died Dec. 6 at the age of 78. > > Uemura first joined Nintendo in 1972, and worked with the company to build > light-gun games, helping to create the predecessor to Duck Hunt. After > moving to Nintendo's new R&D2 team, he headed up the squad's home > console initiative - a mandate from then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi. > > Uemura began development on the Famicom (the Japanese name for the NES) in > 1981 in an attempt to bring the arcade to player's living rooms. R&D2 > launched the Famicom in 1983, and Uemura's team built its successor, the > SNES (known as the Super Famicom in Japan), for its 1990 release. > ======== > rest: > > https://www.polygon.com/22825994/nes-snes-famicom-creator-masayuki-uemura-death > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > [email protected] > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CAGPJw12tdxh49agskbDZJss-m7uUtw6JAk3ViPoxZzynVouecg%40mail.gmail.com.
