interview with Hiroshi Yamauchi, former CEO of Nintendo...

[hitbyambulance]

...in the new issue of Wired...

select quotes...

"While the post-war generation of American children had everything fed to them on silver spoons and watched 'I Love Lucy' we were fighting and scratching our way back to the top, the righteous place of the Japanese people. There's this old American saying that applies to Japan: there's no such thing as a free lunch. Well, there obviously is in America, otherwise they wouldn't be so goddamn fat (laughs)."

"Mikami [Capcom CEO] is a double-faced bastard, that's what he is."

and of course

"HEY, BALLMER, WHY DON'T YOU SUCK MY TINY YELLOW BALLS?"

 :?:

[Andrew Mallon]

It's a hoax.

[HankRaptor]

Uh....

YES

[hitbyambulance]

yup, it's fake.  that'll teach me to believe everything on the world wide interweb.  pretty funny, tho.  

gonna delete this thread tomorrow.

[PaulBot]

The truth hurts.