Company: HAL Laboratory
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In a 2012 Iwata Asks discussion, Nintendo president and HAL Laboratory alum Satoru Iwata revealed that HAL's name was intended as a riff on IBM, an American computer company who were omnipresent in the tech industry when HAL was founded in 1980. According to Iwata, the idea was that each of the letters in "HAL" were just before each of the letters in "IBM" in the Latin alphabet, thus conveying the fact that HAL were always "one step ahead of IBM."
Original DidYouKnowGaming Tumblr post:
https://didyouknowgaming.com/post/43606927983/hal-laboratory
Iwata Asks discussion:
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-ZombiU/ZombiU/2-What-Is-And-What-Isn-t-Possible/2-What-Is-And-What-Isn-t-Possible-676582.html
https://didyouknowgaming.com/post/43606927983/hal-laboratory
Iwata Asks discussion:
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-ZombiU/ZombiU/2-What-Is-And-What-Isn-t-Possible/2-What-Is-And-What-Isn-t-Possible-676582.html
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