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I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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Shigeru Miyamoto
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Television Producer
Video Game Designer
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Miyamoto Shigeru
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Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.
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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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Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself with more advanced games.
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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.
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Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
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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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Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.
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I don't let Mario appear in just any kind of game. Mario could not appear in Zelda games. They are two distinct game worlds.
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Programming is all about numbers.
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You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.
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Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.
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I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.
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I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.
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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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The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
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When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members.
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My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.
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