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Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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Shigeru Miyamoto
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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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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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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The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
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A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
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My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.
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Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!
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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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Fortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives.
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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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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 like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.
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Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.
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I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.
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Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.
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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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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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Programming is all about numbers.
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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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What I'm really excited about is that continued challenge to create things that gamers of all experiences can play.
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