Shigeru Miyamoto
Birthday:
November 16, 1952 in Sonobe cho, Kyoto, Japan
Height:
165 cm
Shigeru Miyamato has been helping create games for Nintendo since 1981. In the late 1970s Nintendo was going bankrupt. Myamato then made two characters, Donkey Kong and Mario (then called Jumpman), for the game Donkey Kong (1981). He has been the supervisor of many games, like the Mario and Zelda games.
A delayed game will eventually be good, a bad game is bad forever.
A delayed game will eventually be good, a bad game is bad forever.
Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.
Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.
Nintendo is the company which makes the most innovative products. I am not sure that I would be able to make games like that elsewhere. At N...Show more »
Nintendo is the company which makes the most innovative products. I am not sure that I would be able to make games like that elsewhere. At Nintendo I can make the games which I want. Show less «
What if, on a crowded street, you look up and see something appear that should not, given what we know, be there. You either shake your head...Show more »
What if, on a crowded street, you look up and see something appear that should not, given what we know, be there. You either shake your head and dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than we think. Perhaps it really is a doorway to another place. If you choose to go inside you may find many unexpected things. Show less «
The money which I earn is mainly dedicated to video games and I am very content.
The money which I earn is mainly dedicated to video games and I am very content.
My favorite video game character is not Mario, it's Pac-Man.
My favorite video game character is not Mario, it's Pac-Man.
A great idea can solve multiple problems at the same time.
A great idea can solve multiple problems at the same time.
Who knows how Mario will look like in the future? Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes.
Who knows how Mario will look like in the future? Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes.
[on Super Mario Bros. (1993)] [In] the end, it was a very fun project that they put a lot of effort into. The one thing that I still have so...Show more »
[on Super Mario Bros. (1993)] [In] the end, it was a very fun project that they put a lot of effort into. The one thing that I still have some regrets about is that the movie may have tried to get a little too close to what the Mario Bros. video games were. And in that sense, it became a movie that was about a video game, rather than being an entertaining movie in and of itself. Show less «
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