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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
Video Game Developer
Miyamoto Shigeru
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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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A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time
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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
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All the time, players are forced to do their utmost. If they are challenged to the limit, is it really fun for them?
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Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
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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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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 think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.
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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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Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.
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Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.
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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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A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.
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The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
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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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In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time.
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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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You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.
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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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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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