gengarbage:

“When we were having trouble fitting all the data in for Gold
and Silver, and we were really in a pinch, this amazing guy came along
and made a program for us that solved all our problems. He went on to
become the amazing president of a real big company soon after that,
too.”

I’d always heard about how Iwata managed to cram the
entire Kanto region into Gold/Silver, but comparing it to the comically
undersized Kanto from the Spaceworld ‘97 beta, holy shit