>>49629428>>49629655For Iwata's luck, Tajiri was back from reviewing the "code" and shitty 8-bit samples I took from the radio and called it a soundtrack. It was two minutes before I had a violent withdraw and unloaded the Nambo in Iwata's ass, so it was bold fucking luck. It did not matter though: as life turned out, I'd end up killing him in one way or the other. Turns out Tajiri was mentally broken, having a fucking meltdown about how he got scammed as I repeatedly shouted him down that we were not giving him a cent back, even after hearing of his father's surgery money or whatever.
At that point Iwata was pissed with everyone in the room and had this biggest fucking scowl I've ever seen in my life like he wanted to choke me right then and there. Bad for him that I started relapsing and slid my hand into the couch. The moment the fucker laid his hand on me, I was about to shrink him.
Then came Ishihara, who had done fuck all his entire life, to save the day. He begged Iwata to calm down, getting on his knees and saying 'he'd do anything for Nintendo to do not find out that we hadn't done shit'. At that point I was pissed, asked Ishihara 'if he'd suck them off too for money, if they asked'. Luckily I did not press further because I knew he would. He had done it before to pay a loanshark.
Iwata was having none of that, but then I gave them the good news: Ishihara's uncle was the Yakuza accountant who ran the entire TPC + Nintendo + GameFreak scam to dodge tax brackers with the Pokémon release. That scam made GameFreak owner of 35% of the Pokémon IP, and Iwata would either make the game for us or come back to Nintendo with no game at all. I made it clear we were not doing shit because we did not have to. We held this entire franchise as hostage.
That was the moment Iwata knew he was fucked and Tajiri went dead on the inside, knowing only mediocre garbage would come out of his dream game.
