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"Nintendo’s designer Shigeru Miyamoto – one of gaming’s earliest superstar
creatives, and the mind behind
Super Mario Bros,
Legend of Zelda F-Zero and
many, many other wonderfully inventive games – has turned 70. Miyamoto, who has
had a hand in the development of most Nintendo games and consoles, is the most
influential game designer alive. Nintendo is part of the creative marrow of the
games industry: there is barely a game developer today who has not played, and
been influenced by, Miyamoto.
He has worked at Nintendo for 45 years and, since the 1990s, he has been the
face of the company. Alongside the late, great former president Satoru Iwata,
and the genius hardware designer and Game Boy architect Gunpei Yokoi, he laid
the foundations for the company’s enduring success, and helped established its
fun-first approach to video games. His smiling, familiar presence at events
such as E3 and Tokyo Game Show over the decades – where he has always been
happy to appear on-stage, waving around a Master Sword or a Wii Remote – has
made him a beloved figure among the Nintendo faithful. He used to show up at
midnight launches to sign things for fans; a friend of mine once asked him to
draw a Mario doodle on his GameCube at a meet-and-greet, and he cheerfully
obliged. He just seems like a really nice dude."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
