When someone mentions SHIGERU MIYAMOTO people will just say "yeah i know that guy hes the guy who made nintendo, hes the guy who made video games happen" but do you guys actually know how he made his way up to the top? if you wiki him his journey was kind of interesint. It mentions things about how he was an artist and then his dads friend worked at nintendo so shigeru joined them. Thats right shigeru wasint the founder of the nintendo he just worked for them but what made him special is that he saved nintendo. Basically nintendo spent alot of money making this game (i forgot what it was called) and they bought alot of arcade machines but it wasint popular. Nintendo had to think fast or they were going to lose alot of money. Then they told shigeru to make up a design for a mod for the game they already released. So shigeru made it and they sent the chips to the guys and they added it on to the machines and guess what? the game became an instant classic and it became soo popular. The game was mario vs donkey kong but at its time it was called jumpman. From there on shigeru was assigned to add in ideas and make his own games and stuff but even though hes the major publisher to nintendo he still refuses to call himself one. His daughter doesnt really play games she just uses the everybody votes channel sometimes and his son doesnt even like video games hes into surfing.

Its amazing what one finds out about someone if they do a little research huh?

potatamoto = miyamoto

VGCats

but anyway, yeah, his life is pretty interesting.

~slay

This message was edited by Akira_EX(moderator) on Jul 24 2008.

_{Yeah, and the president beforehand didn't found it either. Or the president before that. Nintendo was originally a card company, founded in the late 1800s.}

I'm guessing most of the people that frequent the nintendo forums would already know this, it feels really out of place and it's just a bunch of random facts you got from wikipedia >>

plus, I didn't find much of that very interesting

~Menk ~

I'm changing the VGCats comic into link form because it has WAY TOO MANY panels.

I laughed at the VGCats comic. Pretty funny.

lol, his daughter uses the everybody votes channel, that made me laugh. But yeah, interesting stuff. But Sakurai is better tbh

Shigy > Sakurai

Gunpei Yokoi >>> Both

Yokoi and Miyamoto are basically the same but in different fields. Yokoi handled the hardware side while Miyamoto handled software.

Tbh, no-one can top Hideo Kojima's life story.

I thought this was interesting: What's it like working for Miyamoto?

I still have no idea how he came up with mario, how the hell do you come up with inspiration to make a game about an italian plumber that has to save a princess from a fire breathing turtle

quote Jesh

I laughed at the VGCats comic. Pretty funny.

quote Best Player Ever

I still have no idea how he came up with mario, how the hell do you come up with inspiration to make a game about an italian plumber that has to save a princess from a fire breathing turtle

quote Best Player Ever

I still have no idea how he came up with mario, how the hell do you come up with inspiration to make a game about an italian plumber that has to save a princess from a fire breathing turtle