As early as 15 years ago, when PC games were still in their early stages of development, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata began to get involved in mobile game projects.
In the concept of Satoru Iwata’s team, the mobile phone button panel adds a button area with direction and A/B keys on the basis of the traditional 12-square grid, and the mobile phone screen also increases accordingly to adapt to the game. need. At that time, Iwata had already begun to try to combine games with portable communication devices.
"Aurora" had a relatively high weight within the entire group at that time. Iwata Satoru has always been valued by the then president Hiroshi Yamauchi. In the "Aurora" project, Hiroshi Yamauchi assigned Genhiro Takeda of the Hardware Development Department and Shigeru Miyamoto of the Software Development Department to him.
On November 27, 2001, Nintendo submitted a patent application for a "game phone" in the United States. However, the patent was issued five years later on June 27, 2006.