What Does a Research Institute Do?

HAL Research Institute (HAL Laboratory, Inc.) is a Japanese video game developer established on February 21, 1980 and is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. HAL is named after "each letter is one step ahead of IBM." The company is well-known for its starring actor Kabi series, the same name as the protagonist Kabi, the Earth Adventure series and the Nintendo Super Smash Bros. series.

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HAL Research Institute (HAL Laboratory, Inc.) is a Japanese video game developer established on February 21, 1980 and is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. HAL is named after "each letter is one step ahead of IBM." The company is well-known for its starring actor Kabi series, the same name as the protagonist Kabi, the Earth Adventure series and the Nintendo Super Smash Bros. series.

HAL Research started making games for MSX and Commodore VIC-20. Many of the company's games from the early to the 1990s to the mid-1990s used HALKEN (taken from the company's Japanese pronunciation HAL KENkyjo) and the HAL Institute name. Some early works also used the name HAL Americas, a North American subsidiary led by Yash Terakura.

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HAL Research started making games for MSX and Commodore VIC-20. Many games by the company from the early to the 1990s to the mid-

Satoshi Iwata-former president of the HAL Institute

HALKEN (taken from the company's Japanese pronunciation HAL KENkyjo) and the name of the HAL Institute. Some early works also used the name HAL Americas, a North American subsidiary led by Yash Terakura.

In the autumn of 1992, Masamura Tanimura blindly used a large amount of funds for real estate investment such as securities and real estate, resulting in a debt of more than 2 billion yen, and the club was in a state of bankruptcy. ^[1] Satoshi Iwata went to Kyoto to meet with Yamauchi alone and asked for help. Yamauchi was very interested in the business concept described by this young man, so he added Iwata as president to provide debt guarantee for HAL Research. ^[1] Under the leadership of Satoshi Iwata, HAL successively developed a number of best-selling games such as the "Star Cardby" series and "MOTHER2", and repaid the debt in only three years. ^[1]

In July 1998, the 38-year-old Satoshi Iwata was transferred from the president of the HAL Institute to the executive director of Nintendo. ^[1] After the unremitting efforts of this young man, HAL, a small game club that was on the verge of bankruptcy, grew into Nintendo in Japan The most important second party. ^[1]