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8 unusual facts about Shigeru Miyamoto


Brain Age Express

Due to complications between Shigeru Miyamoto, a key developer of Nintendo, and Iwata, the developers were having a difficult time getting started with Brain Age Express.

F-Zero

Shigeru Miyamoto commented in 2007 that past F-Zero and Star Fox collaborations with outside development houses turned out to be a disappointment for Nintendo.

Game Boy Camera

The man appears to be Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario; the music you can hear in the background (while he's dancing) is actually a Jamaican riddim called punnany (played by several reggae/dancehall artists).

Mr. Nintendo

Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer known for his work with Nintendo

Play, The Videogames World

This was illustrated through interviews with important game designers such as Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima, Tetsuya Mizuguchi and the biographies of many other leading personalities in the games industry, through the advertisement campaigns, and though highlighting the relationships between games and sports, politics, Hollywood and the military industries.

Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu

Shigeru / Gary Oak - His name in the Japanese version (Shigeru) is named after famed video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

Sonobe, Kyoto

It was the home town of the legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

Wii Party

It is also the first game in the Wii series that Shigeru Miyamoto did not produce.


Flipnote Studio

Entries were judged and selected by some of the head developers of the series, including Eiji Aonuma for the Zelda Flipnotes, and Shigeru Miyamoto for the Mario Flipnotes.

Mario Party 4

The game was first announced in a 2002 Nintendo press conference in Tokyo, with the announcements made by Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata.

Metreon

The Metreon was also home to the Walk of Game, which is loosely based on the Walk of Fame — honorees include Shigeru Miyamoto, Nolan Bushnell, StarCraft, Sid Meier, John D. Carmack, Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Link from The Legend of Zelda series.

Tadashi Sugiyama

Sugiyama contributed graphic design to several games and worked with several talented Nintendo staff like Shigeru Miyamoto, Kenji Miki, Yoichi Yamada, and Satoru Iwata.

The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia

Outside of those three sections, the book includes a foreword by series creator Shigeru Miyamoto, and an afterward from Eiji Aonuma, who produced recent games in the series.


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