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|logo = [[File:HAL Laboratory logo.png]] | |logo = [[File:HAL Laboratory logo.png]] | ||
|type = Private | |type = Private | ||
|founded = February 21, 1980<ref name="HAL Company">{{Cite web|title=Company |url=http://www.hallab.co.jp/company_data_en.html |accessdate=2007-09-17 |author=HAL Laboratory, Inc}}</ref> | |founded = February 21, 1980<ref name="HAL Company">{{Cite web |title=Company |url=http://www.hallab.co.jp/company_data_en.html |accessdate=2007-09-17 |author=HAL Laboratory, Inc}}</ref> | ||
|headquarters = {{flag|japan}}[[wikipedia:Chiyoda, Tokyo|Chiyoda]], {{iw|wikipedia|Tokyo}} | |headquarters = {{flag|japan}}[[wikipedia:Chiyoda, Tokyo|Chiyoda]], {{iw|wikipedia|Tokyo}} | ||
|key_people = [[Satoru Iwata]] (former president), [[Masahiro Sakurai]] (former employee) | |key_people = [[Satoru Iwata]] (former president), [[Masahiro Sakurai]] (former employee) | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Often believed to be derived from the {{iw|wikipedia|HAL 9000}} computer in the novel and film ''{{iw|Wikipedia|2001: A Space Odyssey|film}}'', an interview with Iwata reveals that its name is a pun of the {{iw|wikipedia|IBM}} company: each letter puts them a step ahead of IBM (the letters H, A and L come ''before'' the letters I, B and M, respectively).<ref>http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/iwata_explains_where_the_name_hal_laboratory_came_from</ref> | * Often believed to be derived from the {{iw|wikipedia|HAL 9000}} computer in the novel and film ''{{iw|Wikipedia|2001: A Space Odyssey|film}}'', an interview with Iwata reveals that its name is a pun of the {{iw|wikipedia|IBM}} company: each letter puts them a step ahead of IBM (the letters H, A and L come ''before'' the letters I, B and M, respectively).<ref>http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/iwata_explains_where_the_name_hal_laboratory_came_from</ref> | ||
==External links== | ==External links== |