Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer | GDC 2005 Keynote

Good morning.

大家早上好。

Many of you will have a lot in common with our next speaker, as he started out as a game developer himself.

在座的各位与我们的下一位演讲者有许多共同点，因为他本人最初也是一名游戏开发者。

If you've played any of the Kirby, EarthBound, or Smash Brothers games, you've already met his inner self.

如果你玩过《星之卡比》、《地球冒险》或《任天堂明星大乱斗》，你就已经见过他内心的那个自己了。

Yet his vision of the future propelled推进 him up the chain of command, landing him at the highest level of the video game industry.

然而，他对未来的远见推动他一步步晋升，最终站在了视频游戏行业的最高层。

We are also particularly appreciative that he will be delivering发表（演讲） his keynote in English and with a sore throat.

我们要特别感谢他，尽管嗓子哑了，仍坚持用英语发表主旨演讲。

Please join me in welcoming the top man at Nintendo—worldwide president Satoru Iwata.

请和我一起欢迎任天堂的掌门人——全球总裁岩田聪。

Thank you very much, J.

非常感谢，J。

All my business card: I am a corporate president.

在我名片上印的是：公司总裁。

In my mind, I am a game developer.

但在我的脑海里，我是一名游戏开发者。

But in my heart, I am a gamer.

而在我的内心深处，我是一名玩家。

Today, I'd like to speak to you from my heart about our jobs and about our industry行业.

今天，我想发自内心地与大家谈谈我们的工作以及我们所处的行业。

I remember the first video game I ever played—it was Pong—and I loved it.

我记得我玩过的第一款电子游戏是《Pong》，我非常喜欢它。

By the time I was in high school, I was the first person in my class to buy an AL-8 calculator.

上高中时，我是班里第一个购买 AL-8 计算器的人。

I think I was one of the original early adapters.

我想我算是早期的采用者之一。

But where most people used their calculators for higher mathematics, I used mine to program video games.

当大多数人用计算器进行高等数学运算时，我却用它来编写电子游戏。

My first creation was a baseball game.

我的第一个作品是一款棒球游戏。

I don't think anyone can say it has bad graphics图像 because it has no graphics图像.

没人能说它的画面不好，因为它根本没有画面。

Gameplay was represented by only numbers.

游戏玩法仅由数字来表示。

But when I saw my friends playing that game and having fun, it made me feel proud.

但当我看到朋友们在玩这款游戏并乐在其中时，我感到无比自豪。

To me, this was a source来源 of energy and passion.

对我来说，这就是灵感和激情的源泉。

At that passion for games began to blossom蓬勃发展.

那时，我对游戏的热情开始萌芽。

I think my life course进程 was set in 1978.

我认为我的人生轨迹在 1978 年就已注定。

I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

我进入了东京工业大学。

I would have loved to study video game programming, but no one was teaching it then, so I went to classes on engineering工程学 and early computer science.

我本想学习电子游戏编程，但当时无人教授，所以我转而修读了工程和早期计算机科学课程。

But after class, when my friends went back to their rooms to study, I took off on my motorcycle for one retail store in Tokyo.

但下课后，当我的朋友们回房间学习时，我骑上摩托车直奔东京的一家零售店。

This was the first store to have a department entirely dedicated专用的 to personal computers.

这是第一家设有专门部门销售个人电脑的商店。

That was my hangout常去的地方, and I was not alone—there were others there who also looked at those early computers

那是我的据点，而且我并不孤单——那里还有其他人也在研究那些早期的电脑。

and thought the same thing I did: How could we play games on them?

并和我想的一样：我们怎么能在上面玩游戏呢？

We became friends, formed a club and soon rented an apartment in the Akihabara District of Tokyo, where we began designing our own games.

我们成了朋友，组建了一个俱乐部，不久后在东京秋叶原租了一间公寓，开始设计自己的游戏。