Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

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Shigeru Miyamoto

Profession : Designer

Birth : November 16, 1952

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

Shigeru Miyamoto

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

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I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.

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I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

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There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

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I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

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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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I think everyone can enjoy games.

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Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

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I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.

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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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It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

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I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

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Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

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I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

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I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

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Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

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Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

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People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields.

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