Shigeru Miyamoto is a famous figure in the gaming industry. He designed many popular and successful video games for Nintendo, including Mario, Donkey Kong, and The Legend of Zelda. Miyamoto helped Nintendo to create its first coin-operated arcade video game, Sheriff. He also helped Nintendo to penetrate North American video game market by converting the failed Radar Scope into Donkey Kong. Based on the success of Donkey Kong, Shigeru created Mario Bros. The Japanese video game designer and producer was born and raised in Kyoto. He prefers playing guitar, mandolin and banjo to video games. Shigeru also does not have technical skills to write video games, but what makes him a successful video game designer? There are several saying. The first one says he made his own toys out of wood and string when he was a child. People also suspect his childhood environment which is close to nature inspired his creativity. Another saying is he drew comic as a kid, which shaped his creative thinking process. Currently Shigeru Miyamoto has retired. However people in the industry are wondering if the legendary Shigeru will venture into mobile games. Mobile game is not something new to Shigeru, as he admitted his affection towards Angry Birds. He used to tell Edge that he Angry Birds “has a traditional video game [feel] to it, but also a very creative side. And you can really feel that they’re having fun developing the game.” Side note, Shigeru also mentors Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:08:03 +0000
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