Stop buying games at launch.
How on earth have I lived all these past 19 years without realizing I need a Martini livery mug?
From then on HAL Laboratory, now under the leadership of president Saturo Iwata, was effectively a second-party (excluisve third-party) Nintendo developer. They co-developed Mother 2, aka Earthbound. They made Sim games for the Nintendo 64. The worked on classics like Pokemon Snap and Pokemon Stadium.
Williams is still better because Martini.