Toshio Iwawaki

I know almost nothing about Toshio Iwawaki, but he's one of the first people behind the scenes in gaming that I paid attention to.  Beating Super Mario World and watching its credits is my earliest memory of paying attention to game credits.  He was credited as Mario & System Programmer, which to my 9-ish year old self made him seem like the guy responsible not only for Mario the character, but the SNES too.  He continues to show up in EAD credits.

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