[FlamingCobra]

Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Japanese businessman credited with transforming Nintendo into a world-leading video games company, has died aged 85.

Though it is sad that this man has passed away, he completely left the company back in 2005, so this won't change anything over at Big N.

[Mongoose]

It's hard to overstate the contribution his decisions made to the history of gaming.  Hell, without the NES, who knows how long it would have taken for the industry to rebound.