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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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I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.
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Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.
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The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
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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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As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing.
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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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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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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 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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You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.
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My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.
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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 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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Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.
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Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.
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Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.
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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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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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What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.
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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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