Balloon Fight
Balloon Arena Fighter
1-2 Players
System: Nintendo Entertainment System
Developer: Nintendo R&D1
Year of Release: 1985
Beaten: Years ago on Animal Crossing!
On July 11th, 2015, Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, passed away suddenly. He contributed to several quality games early in his career and rose through the ranks quickly from programmer, to president of HAL Labs, to president of Nintendo. I can't find many games that he was the lead programmer of, as he mostly helped solve complex problems with other games. The earliest game I could find that he was mostly responsible for is Balloon Fight, a quirky game that always stuck out to me for some reason.
