Before he was President of Nintendo, before HAL Laboratory, Satoru Iwata was a Commodore fan who programmed games on his Commodore PET 2001. When he started with HAL, he made a Galaxian clone called Star Battle for the VIC-20 which was released in 1981. In that cartridge he hid a credits screen which hasn't been fully revealed until now, 42 years later. Big thanks to Darren from Groo Tube for help with the thumbnail: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPynB8QjvQgbX2X5TwZX9QA Also thanks to Jason Compton for wording suggestions! Become a patron: https://patreon.com/8BitShowAndTell One-time donation: https://paypal.me/8BitShowAndTell Links: Ward Shrake's VIC-20 document where I probably first learned of the hidden text in Star Battle: http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/vic20/Cartzilla.html Gaming Historian's video about Satoru Iwata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4cJh2YgrKE Ending music is an unreleased instrumental version of "The NPC" by Bedford Level Experiment: https://bedfordlevelexperiment.bandcamp.com/ Index 0:00 A brief history of Satoru Iwata 1:58 Star Battle: Satoru Iwata's first commercial game 3:58 Using a RAM Expander and SuperMon to analyze the ROM 6:23 The easter egg text 9:24 Triggering the easter egg 10:22 How I found it: 1) The print routine 13:25 2) Finding the easter egg code 16:04 3) How to trigger it: keyscan routine 21:59 4) How to patch to restore key combo 24:05 How it was intended: the egg 25:44 Thanks to my patrons