Wild at Heart
Leaving Las Vegas

The ones on ThinkPads are called TrackPoints, but in general they're known as pointing sticks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Naming_and_brands

In honor of Satoru Iwata, Game Developers Conference is posting his GDC keynotes in full onto YouTube. This keynote, held in 2005, is entitled Heart of a Gamer.

There are many things to say, but words only go as far. In our hearts and minds we are game developers and gamers, not writers, so we felt the most appropriate way to express our feelings and gratitude was through a videogame.

http://simogo.com/2015/07/13/thank-you-mr-iwata/

Super Mario 64 Violin Cover - Credits Song (Tribute to Mr. Iwata)

 

[Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology]

Crazy Nintendo Speculation Time
Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology

Yokoi articulated his philosophy of "Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology" (枯れた技術の水平思考?, "Kareta Gijutsu no Suihei Shikō") (also translated as "Lateral Thinking with Seasoned Technology") in the book, Yokoi Gunpei Game House (横井軍平ゲーム館 Yokoi Gunpei Gēmu-kan?), which consists of a collection of interviews. "Withered technology" in this context refers to a mature technology which is cheap and well understood. "Lateral thinking" refers to finding radical new ways of using such technology. Yokoi held that toys and games do not necessarily require cutting edge technology; novel and fun gameplay are more important. In the interview he suggested that expensive cutting edge technology can get in the way of developing a new product.

Game & Watch was developed based on this philosophy. At the time of its development, Sharp and Casio were fiercely competing in the digital calculator market. For this reason, there was a glut of liquid crystal displays and semiconductors. The "lateral thinking" was to find an original and fun use for this cheap and abundant technology.

Source

I'm trapped in a Synth Wave rabbit hole and can't find a way out; listening to

Is it simply that a cart DOES load like a CD, only a bazillion times faster, so that there is virtually "no" loading?

From Wikipedia:

As the ROM cartridge is memory mapped into the system's normal address space, software stored in the ROM can be read like normal memory; since the system does not have to transfer data from slower media, it allows for nearly instant load time and code execution. Software run directly from ROM typically uses less RAM, leaving memory free for other processes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_cartridge

Didn't saw that post, my bad.
But now I've read it and found an appropriate quote to express my feelings about this F-Zero/Criterion thingy:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOO

Exclusive: We Almost Got A Wii U F-Zero Created By Burnout Studio Criterion

Shin’en would probably decline making new F-Zero if Nintendo asked

F-Zero is doomed

[Because as an artist, that's really what you want — you want someone to sponsor you as an artist.]

When I first decided to go to work for a company, I wanted to create things, so I wasn't looking for a company to work for — I was looking for a company to sponsor me so that I could create the things that I wanted. Because as an artist, that's really what you want — you want someone to sponsor you as an artist.

Shigeru Miyamoto

[Shenmue 3]

It’s been one of the most demanded yet seemingly troubled projects in recent gaming history, but since its surprise unveiling at E3 on Monday Shenmue 3 has become the fastest videogame to raise $1million in pledges on a crowdfunding platform.
 
The much-anticipated instalment in the landmark RPG series took just 1 hour 42 minutes to reach the milestone on Kickstarter, smashing the previous record of 6 hours 5 minutes set by Torment: Tides of Numenera in 2013

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2015/6/shenmue-3-e3-announcement-kickstarts-crowdfunding-videogame-world-record-385887

Iwata says

Miyamoto is about to show Mario Maker now.

Nintendo won because they disabled the YT chat by default.