Satoshi Mitsuhara On The Joys Of Running HAL Laboratory And His Friendship With Satoru Iwata

For many, HAL Laboratory is just the studio behind the Kirby games but there's more to this company than first appears. I was lucky enough to catch up with the studio's president Satoshi Mitsuhara and find out what makes HAL Laboratory so special. Mitsuhara has had a long and eventful career in gaming but how he got into games is very interesting. Especially as he started out as a programmer but not out of mathematical interesting, but something more mechanical. "I grew up in Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It was the countryside so you could say I grew up surrounded by nature. In those days, the source of information in areas like this was just TV and radio. That meant whatever was happening in more cosmopolitan areas, I was a long way from that covered in mud. "I used to really enjoy playing with radio-controlled cars when I was younger, so I think that lead up to working with computers in a way.