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Miyamoto: New Zelda Won't Be "Radically Different" [The Legend Of ...

Kotaku - Found Jul. 2, 2009
... t think it's going to be that radically different," Shigeru Miyamoto told Nintendo Power . Ah, crud. Fingers crossed Miyamoto is simply being...

Posted on July 2, 2009, 2:00 am

Is Shigeru Miyamoto the Michael Jackson of the video game industry?

Gaming Nexus - Found Jun. 30, 2009
The three big names I came up with were Nolan Bushnell, Will Wright, and Shigeru Miyamoto.

Posted on June 30, 2009, 11:52 am

Shigeru Miyamoto Makes Surprise Appearance at Developer Roundtable ...

Gaming Excellence - Found Jun. 8, 2009
... development himself, Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto. The following recap speaks for itself. It is essentially a somewhat paraphrased version of ...

Posted on June 8, 2009, 12:15 pm

Shigeru Miyamoto Discusses Wii MotionPlus, Competing Motion ...

1Up.com - Found Jun. 8, 2009
We had a chance to speak with legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto at E3, where he shared his thoughts on the MotionPlus, the upcoming , and...

Posted on June 8, 2009, 11:58 am

Shigeru Miyamoto Checks Out The Competition (PSP Go) [E3]

Kotaku - Found Jun. 3, 2009
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo is doing just that.

Posted on June 3, 2009, 10:20 am

Shigeru Miyamoto Is Ultimate Developer Hero

Cinema Blend - Found Jun. 15, 2009
1. Shigeru Miyamoto - often referred to as the father of modern video games for his role in creating legendary games franchises Mario...

Posted on June 15, 2009, 2:59 am

Shigeru Miyamoto slips down Time's most influential poll

Nintendo Wii Fanboy - Found Apr. 28, 2009
Just a year after it voted him the most influential person in Time's annual poll, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has been downgraded to 42nd...

Posted on April 28, 2009, 10:15 am

Miyamoto: next Wii Zelda won't be ?radically different"

Examiner.com - Found 12 hours ago
The latest issue of Nintendo Power magazine contains a very brief and very cryptic quote from legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto regarding the
Next Wii Zelda will not be "that radically different", claims ... - Examiner.com
Miyamoto Talks Wii Zelda - IGN.com
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IGN.com

Posted on July 3, 2009, 3:03 am

New Zelda won't be 'radically different'

Pro-G - Found Jul. 2, 2009
So what's Zelda supremo Shigeru Miyamoto got up his sleeve for the new game? According to comments made to Nintendo Power, not that much.
Miyamoto Says New Zelda Not "Radically Different" - 1Up.com
The Legend of Zelda: A complete pictorial history of one of the ... - Good Gear Guide
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Good Gear Guide

Posted on July 2, 2009, 4:30 am

Maingear giving away two TWKR processors

Gaming Nexus - Found Jul. 1, 2009
The three big names I came up with were Nolan Bushnell, Will Wright, and Shigeru Miyamoto.
News Roundup Red patch coming off - Gaming Nexus
Red Faction 1 and 2 Free with Guerrilla Pre-Order - Examiner.com
Jaffe showing off latest to Sony - Gaming Nexus
1.0.1.2 Blood Bowl patch released - Gaming Nexus
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Posted on July 1, 2009, 11:37 am

Shigeru Miyamoto Biography

Shigeru Miyamoto
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto
Born November 16, 1952 (1952-11-16) (age 56)
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. He is considered by manywho? to be the greatest and most influential video game designer of all time.

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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 enemies 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 (pronounced Pick) that was the inspiration for Nintendogs.14 He is also a semi-professional dog breeder.15. He has quoted "Video-games are bad for you? That's what they said about Rock 'N' Roll."16

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

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 200719 and 2008.20

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."21

Both GameTrailers and IGN placed Miyamoto first on their lists for the "Top Ten Game Creators"22 and the "Top 100 Game Creators of All Time"23 respectively.

In a survey of over 9,000 game developers by industry publication Develop, 30% of the developers chose Miyamoto as their "Ultimate Development Hero".24 Miyamoto has been interviewed by companies and organisations such as CNN's Talk Asia25 and NextLevel.com.26

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Nintendo Power staff (1997). Star Fox 64 Player's Guide. Nintendo of America. pp. 116-119. 
  2. ^ Nintendo Power staff (June 2007). "Power Profiles 1: Shigeru Miyamoto". Nintendo Power (216): 88-90. 
  3. ^ a b Wright, Will. "Shigeru Miyamoto: The video-game guru who made it O.K. to play". TIME Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/asia/2006/heroes/bl_miyamoto.html. Retrieved on 2006-11-28. 
  4. ^ Vestal, Andrew, et al. (2000-09-14). "History of Zelda". GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hist_zelda/index.html. Retrieved on 2006-09-30. 
  5. ^ Sheff, David (1993). Game Over. Random House. ISBN 0-679-40469-4. 
  6. ^ "Developer Profile: Intelligent Systems". IGN. 2001-01-10. http://cube.ign.com/articles/089/089831p1.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-19. 
  7. ^ Imamura, Takao; Miyamoto, Shigeru (August 1997), "Pak Watch E3 Report "The Game Masters"", Nintendo Power 99: 104–105 .
  8. ^ N-Europe: News: Wii Music On Track For 2008
  9. ^ "An Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto". http://www.the-nextlevel.com. http://www.the-nextlevel.com/feature/interview-shigeru-miyamoto/. Retrieved on 2007-10-24. 
  10. ^ "Iwata Asks: The Indefinable Essence Of Zelda". Nintendo. Archived from the original on 2006-12-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20061209104018/http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/wii/?site=v5_01.html&expand=5&l=enGB. Retrieved on 2006-11-16. 
  11. ^ スクリーンショット
  12. ^ "【任天堂】ラウンドテーブルにて『ゼルダの伝説 Twilight Princess』の全貌が明らかに!" (in Japanese). Famitsu. 2005-05-18. http://www.famitsu.com/game/event/2005/05/18/264,1116367600,39303,0,0.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-19. 
  13. ^ "Shigeru Miyamoto Developer Bio". MobyGames. http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,36620/. Retrieved on 2007-09-19. 
  14. ^ Totilo, Stephen (2005-09-27). "Nintendo Fans Swarm Mario's Father During New York Visit". VH1. http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1510449/09272005/id_0.jhtml. Retrieved on 2007-09-19. 
  15. ^ Gibson, Ellie (2005-08-23). "Nintendogs Interview // DS // Eurogamer". Eurogamer. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/i_nintendogs_ds. Retrieved on 2008-05-02. 
  16. ^ http://thinkexist.com/quotation/video-games-are-bad-for-you-that-s-what-they-said/406209.html
  17. ^ "A Hardcore Elegy for Ion Storm". Salon.com. p. 5. Archived from the original on 2006-12-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20061206142311/http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2002/01/02/ion_storm/index.html?pn=5. Retrieved on 2007-09-19. 
  18. ^ "Miyamoto Will Enter Hall of Fame". GameSpot. 1998-05-12. http://www.gamespot.com/news/2463264.html. Retrieved on 2009-06-30. 
  19. ^ Wendel, Johnathan. "The TIME 100 (2007) - Shigeru Miyamoto". TIME Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1615737_1615521,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-03. 
  20. ^ "Who is Most Influential? - The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists". TIME Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725112_1726934_1726935,00.html. Retrieved on 2008-04-12. 
  21. ^ Carless, Simon (2007-02-12). "2007 Game Developers Choice Awards To Honor Miyamoto, Pajitnov". Gamasutra. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=12732. Retrieved on 2007-02-12. 
  22. ^ GT Countdown Video Game, Top Ten Game Creators | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com
  23. ^ IGN - 1. Shigeru Miyamoto
  24. ^ http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/92401-Miyamoto-Is-Developers-Hero
  25. ^ http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/14/miyamoto.script/index.html
  26. ^ http://www.the-nextlevel.com/feature/interview-shigeru-miyamoto/

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