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It was against this background of financial difficulty and management conflicts that Sakurai was developing a beginner-friendly platforming game called [[Kirby's Dream Land#Trivia|''Twinkle☆Popo'']]. Seeing the appeal of the game, Shigeru Miyamoto offered for Nintendo to market and publish the game once it was reborn as ''Kirby's Dream Land''.<ref>{{cite person|quote=あのタイトルでゲームボーイのソフトとして出す予定でしたが、「もったいない」と宮本茂さんがおっしゃって、調整して、任天堂発売の『星のカービィ』に変わるんですね。" Translation: "We were going to release it under that title, but then Shigeru Miyamoto-san said 'mottainai' ''['it would be a shame', or even 'what a waste' in its most direct use]'', so we tuned it up and changed it into the Nintendo-published Kirby of the Stars ''[''Kirby's Dream Land'']''.|name=[[Satoru Iwata]]|url=https://www.1101.com/president/iwata07.html|title=ほぼ日刊イトイ新聞 - 社長に学べ！}}</ref> Beyond ''Kirby'', Nintendo would help HAL Laboratory repay its ¥1.5 billion debt on the condition that Iwata was appointed as President of HAL Laboratory. Nintendo was already familiar with Iwata, who had driven HAL's entry into Famicom game development, and his leadership and Nintendo's investment (including into the sales and marketing of HAL's games) would see HAL Laboratory focus on breaking the vicious cycle that led to the company's financial hardship.<ref name="shmuplations_iwata">Interview with Satoru Iwata in [https://retrocdn.net/images/3/33/UsedGames_JP_12.pdf ''Used Games'' magazine, volume 12 (1999 autumn)] ([https://shmuplations.com/iwata/ shmuplations.com translation])</ref>
It was against this background of financial difficulty and management conflicts that Sakurai was developing a beginner-friendly platforming game called ''[[Twinkle☆Popo]]''. Seeing the appeal of the game, Shigeru Miyamoto offered for Nintendo to market and publish the game once it was reborn as ''Kirby's Dream Land''.<ref>{{cite person|quote=あのタイトルでゲームボーイのソフトとして出す予定でしたが、「もったいない」と宮本茂さんがおっしゃって、調整して、任天堂発売の『星のカービィ』に変わるんですね。" Translation: "We were going to release it under that title, but then Shigeru Miyamoto-san said 'mottainai' ''['it would be a shame', or even 'what a waste' in its most direct use]'', so we tuned it up and changed it into the Nintendo-published Kirby of the Stars ''[''Kirby's Dream Land'']''.|name=[[Satoru Iwata]]|url=https://www.1101.com/president/iwata07.html|title=ほぼ日刊イトイ新聞 - 社長に学べ！}}</ref> Beyond ''Kirby'', Nintendo would help HAL Laboratory repay its ¥1.5 billion debt on the condition that Iwata was appointed as President of HAL Laboratory. Nintendo was already familiar with Iwata, who had driven HAL's entry into Famicom game development, and his leadership and Nintendo's investment (including into the sales and marketing of HAL's games) would see HAL Laboratory focus on breaking the vicious cycle that led to the company's financial hardship.<ref name="shmuplations_iwata">Interview with Satoru Iwata in [https://retrocdn.net/images/3/33/UsedGames_JP_12.pdf ''Used Games'' magazine, volume 12 (1999 autumn)] ([https://shmuplations.com/iwata/ shmuplations.com translation])</ref>


A part of the original company split off in 1992 to become HAL Corporation,<ref name="halcorp_corpinf">[http://web.archive.org/web/19980629060624/http://www.halcorp.co.jp/Company/ 株式会社ハル・コーポレーション会社概要] (Wayback Machine snapshot from 1998; note in particular the date of establishment, 設立 : １９９２年８月３日)</ref> which would continue previous work on non-Nintendo products, such as new entries to the ''Eggerland'' series for [[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows]] computers,<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20020219085405/http://www.halcorp.co.jp/soft/newegg/index.htm HAL Corporation page for 「復活！エッガーランド」]; the company also featured artwork of [http://web.archive.org/web/19980629060611im_/http://www.halcorp.co.jp/Items/Amusment/EggerLand/Images/infololo.gif Lolo] and [http://web.archive.org/web/19980629060556im_/http://www.halcorp.co.jp/Items/Amusment/EggerLand/Images/rara.gif Lala] on [http://web.archive.org/web/19980629060459/http://www.halcorp.co.jp/ its website]</ref> and updated versions of the 1990 Good Design Award-winning Crossam 2 universal remote.<ref>A press release about the Crossam 2 Plus, circulated to publications like [https://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/328/328627/ ASCII] and [https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20020117/hal.htm AV Watch], would be one of the final pieces of news from HAL Corporation.</ref> This entity appears to have gone defunct sometime in 2002.<ref>[http://fryguy64.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=classic&thread=3972 To what extent is HAL Laboratory "Nintendo"? | NinDB Boards Jun 26, 2011]</ref><ref>While no official source exists to confirm the timing of HAL Corporation's demise, both [[wikipedia:ja:エッガーランド#シリーズの歴史|the Japanese Wikipedia page on the ''Eggerland'' series]] and [https://w.atwiki.jp/aniwotawiki/pages/27616.html Aniwota Wiki's entry on HAL Laboratory] suggest that the company dissolved in 2002, supported by the company's website becoming inaccessible beyond March of 2002 ([http://web.archive.org/web/20020311000000*/http://www.halcorp.co.jp:80/download/index.htm example]).</ref>
A part of the original company split off in 1992 to become HAL Corporation,<ref name="halcorp_corpinf">[http://web.archive.org/web/19980629060624/http://www.halcorp.co.jp/Company/ 株式会社ハル・コーポレーション会社概要] (Wayback Machine snapshot from 1998; note in particular the date of establishment, 設立 : １９９２年８月３日)</ref> which would continue previous work on non-Nintendo products, such as new entries to the ''Eggerland'' series for [[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows]] computers,<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20020219085405/http://www.halcorp.co.jp/soft/newegg/index.htm HAL Corporation page for 「復活！エッガーランド」]; the company also featured artwork of [http://web.archive.org/web/19980629060611im_/http://www.halcorp.co.jp/Items/Amusment/EggerLand/Images/infololo.gif Lolo] and [http://web.archive.org/web/19980629060556im_/http://www.halcorp.co.jp/Items/Amusment/EggerLand/Images/rara.gif Lala] on [http://web.archive.org/web/19980629060459/http://www.halcorp.co.jp/ its website]</ref> and updated versions of the 1990 Good Design Award-winning Crossam 2 universal remote.<ref>A press release about the Crossam 2 Plus, circulated to publications like [https://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/328/328627/ ASCII] and [https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20020117/hal.htm AV Watch], would be one of the final pieces of news from HAL Corporation.</ref> This entity appears to have gone defunct sometime in 2002.<ref>[http://fryguy64.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=classic&thread=3972 To what extent is HAL Laboratory "Nintendo"? | NinDB Boards Jun 26, 2011]</ref><ref>While no official source exists to confirm the timing of HAL Corporation's demise, both [[wikipedia:ja:エッガーランド#シリーズの歴史|the Japanese Wikipedia page on the ''Eggerland'' series]] and [https://w.atwiki.jp/aniwotawiki/pages/27616.html Aniwota Wiki's entry on HAL Laboratory] suggest that the company dissolved in 2002, supported by the company's website becoming inaccessible beyond March of 2002 ([http://web.archive.org/web/20020311000000*/http://www.halcorp.co.jp:80/download/index.htm example]).</ref>
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