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Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto
Born	November 16, 1952 (1952-11-16) (age 57) Sonobe cho, Kyoto, Japan12
Occupation	Game designer, EAD General manager

Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本 茂, Miyamoto Shigeru^?) (born November 16, 1952 in Sonobe cho, Kyoto, Japan¹) is a Japanese video game designer and producer who has been called the "father of modern video games" and "the Walt Disney of electronic gaming"³ for helping create the Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and F-Zero franchises and games such as Nintendogs and Wii Music.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Nintendo 2 Work style 3 Personal life 4 Awards and recognition 5 Selected Gameography 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

Biography

Early life

Miyamoto described childhood experiences such as exploring fields, woods and caves outside Kyoto as an inspiration for The Legend of Zelda⁴ and an antagonizing experience with a neighbor's chained dog, which inspired the Chain Chomp in the Mario series.⁵

Nintendo

First employed by Nintendo as an artist in 1977, he designed one of their first coin-operated arcade games, Radar Scope,⁶ which was less successful in the United States than Nintendo hoped. He then reused the game's hardware and modified it into Donkey Kong, which was a huge success.

Work style

At 1997's E3 convention, Miyamoto revealed that he was constantly working with around four hundred people on around a dozen projects at a time.⁷ However, he has also stated that he prefers to focus on "games in order, one by one" rather than many at once.⁸

Miyamoto has also been known to have Nintendo implement delays "to make a game [...] of the high quality standards that Nintendo is known for",⁹ at times even scrapping the entire development of games. He and fellow developers refer to this scrapping as "Chabudai Gaeshi" (ちゃぶ台返し, "upending the tea table"), a reference to manga and anime Star of the Giants.¹⁰ It is also referred to as "Miyahon Check" (Miyahon is an alternative kanji reading of Miyamoto) or "Miyamoto Test".¹¹

An example of this was Eiji Aonuma's replacement as producer on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess by Miyamoto between 2005 to 2006 so that he could assume direction duties. Aonuma stated that the switch was the result of a year-long development being Chabudai Gaeshi'ed.¹² In the same interview, Miyamoto said that he had to clean up the mess from his Chabudai Gaeshi, so he joined as a producer and assisted in the development of the Nintendo GameCube and Wii versions of the game.

Personal life

Although a game designer, Miyamoto spends little time playing games, preferring to play the guitar and banjo.¹³ He has a Shetland Sheepdog named Pikku that was the inspiration for Nintendogs.¹⁴ He is also a semi-professional dog breeder.¹⁵. He has been quoted as stating, "Video-games are bad for you? That's what they said about Rock 'N' Roll."¹⁶ Miyamoto also has stated that he has a hobby of guessing the measurements of objects, then checking to see if he was correct, and apparently carries a tape measure with him everywhere. He also owns a cat.

Awards and recognition

The name of the main character of the PC game Daikatana, Hiro Miyamoto, is an homage to Miyamoto.¹⁷

In 1998, Miyamoto was honored as the first inductee into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame.¹⁸

In 2006, Miyamoto was made a Chevalier (knight) of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres.¹⁹²⁰

On November 28, 2006, Miyamoto was featured in TIME Asia's "60 Years of Asian Heroes," alongside Hayao Miyazaki, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Bruce Lee and the Dalai Lama.³ He was later chosen as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of the Year in both 2007²¹ and also in 2008, in which he topped the list with a total vote of 1,766,424.²²

At the Game Developers Choice Awards, on March 7, 2007, Miyamoto received the Lifetime Achievement Award "for a career that spans the creation of Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda to the company's recent revolutionary systems, Nintendo DS and Wii."²³

Both GameTrailers and IGN placed Miyamoto first on their lists for the "Top Ten Game Creators"²⁴ and the "Top 100 Game Creators of All Time"²⁵ respectively.

In a survey of game developers by industry publication Develop, 30% of the developers chose Miyamoto as their "Ultimate Development Hero".²⁶ Miyamoto has been interviewed by companies and organizations such as CNN's Talk Asia²⁷ and NextLevel.com.²⁸

Selected Gameography

• Donkey Kong (1981)
• Super Mario Bros. (1985)
• The Legend of Zelda (1986)
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)
• Super Mario Kart (1992)
• Pokémon Red and Blue (1996)
• Super Mario 64 (1996)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
• Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
• Super Mario Sunshine (2002)
• Metroid Prime (2002)
• Super Mario Galaxy (2007)

See also

• Nintendo
• The Legend of Zelda
• Super Mario Bros.
• Donkey Kong (video game)
• Star Fox

References

External links

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• New York Times profile, May 25, 2008
• Video profile of Shigeru Miyamoto from the digital TV series Play Value produced by ON Networks

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