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Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Shigeru Miyamoto
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Miyamoto Shigeru
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You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.
Shigeru Miyamoto
When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.
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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
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Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.
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I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.
Shigeru Miyamoto
A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
Shigeru Miyamoto
I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.
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What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.
Shigeru Miyamoto
I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential, ... When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe.
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I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.
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Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Angry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first.
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The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
Shigeru Miyamoto
I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.
Shigeru Miyamoto
As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing.
Shigeru Miyamoto
This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
Shigeru Miyamoto
We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.
Shigeru Miyamoto
My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.
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