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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: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Computer Scientist
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Television Producer
Video Game Designer
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Miyamoto Shigeru
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The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
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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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What I'm really excited about is that continued challenge to create things that gamers of all experiences can play.
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I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
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A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.
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Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
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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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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 made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.
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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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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
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Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.
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Programming is all about numbers.
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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.
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What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.
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Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.
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Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.
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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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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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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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