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Shigeru Miyamoto

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Shigeru Miyamoto
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
Artist
Computer Scientist
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Game Programmer
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Television Producer
Video Game Designer
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Miyamoto Shigeru
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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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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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My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.
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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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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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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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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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A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
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Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.
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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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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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For a long time at Nintendo we didn't focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features. But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the Internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities.
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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
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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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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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What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.
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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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I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.
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