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Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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Shigeru Miyamoto
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
Artist
Computer Scientist
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Game Programmer
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Television Producer
Video Game Designer
Video Game Developer
Miyamoto Shigeru
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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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Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
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Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.
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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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A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time
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I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.
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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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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
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A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.
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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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You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.
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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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Programming is all about numbers.
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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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Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.
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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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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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