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HAL Laboratory turns 35 years old

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From wikipedia article: HAL Laboratory, Inc. (Japanese: Hepburn: Haru Kenkyjo?) is a Japanese video game developer that was founded on February 21, 1980. It is headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. HAL was named that way because "each letter put them one step ahead of IBM". The company is most famous for its character Kirby, the eponymous protagonist of the series of games, the Mother series (otherwise known as EarthBound), and the Super Smash Bros. series. HAL Laboratory started off making games for the MSX system and the Commodore VIC-20. In many of its games during the early to mid-1990s it used the name HALKEN (derived from their literal Japanese name "HAL KENkyjo") as well as HAL Laboratory. Some of its early titles were also released as HAL America, a North American subsidiary of the company led by Yash Terakura.