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A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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Shigeru Miyamoto
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!
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A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time
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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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Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.
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Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.
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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.
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The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
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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.
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Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.
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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 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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I could make Halo. It’s not that I couldn’t design that game. It’s just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.
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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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Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.
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In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time.
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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 don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.
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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 made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.
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My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.
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