Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, artist and producer, and the creator of .
==Biography==
During his childhood, Miyamoto enjoyed exploring the countryside and hillsides around his home, which inspired the creation of . He joined Nintendo in 1977, where he began developing early arcade games such as Sheriff and Donkey Kong (his first major hit), and through his long and highly successful professional career, would become one of the most accomplished and influential video game designers in the world and made the company widely known as it is today (Nintendo before Miyamoto's employment was a small Japanese card/toy manufacturer). Shortly before starting development for , Miyamoto began developing as a launch title for the Famicom Disk System (an add-on for the Japanese version of the NES). Since then, he has worked as the producer of every game in series. He is also the creator of other iconic Nintendo franchises such as Super Mario, Donkey Kong, F-Zero, Star Fox, and Pikmin, as well as Nintendogs, and played important roles in the creation of Metroid and Pokemon. In 2002, Shigeru Miyamoto served as one of Nintendo's representative directors as an executive and was promoted to the title of Fellow at Nintendo in 2015. He continues to work at Nintendo to this day.
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==Trivia==
* is the only game Miyamoto considers a failure, due to the limitations of the NES hardware. It is also his least favorite game of all time that he has worked on.
**He also dislikes the art style of The Wind Waker as well.
*Miyamoto himself played the mandolin in 's title theme.
*Shigeru Miyamoto has often been described by many as the video game equivalent of Walt Disney and Stan Lee.
*Shigeru's favorite games are often older Mario series titles from the NES and Super NES era, specifically Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario World. He also heavily enjoys Pokemon GO.
**His favorite The Legend of Zelda series game is Link's Awakening, as he said he and his team had fun developing it and he was even playing it the whole time. According to himself, Skyward Sword is the best Zelda title rather than Ocarina of Time.
**In terms of third-party games, according to Kotaku in 2020, Miyamoto is interested in Pac-Man and Tetris.
*Ironically, although Shigeru Miyamoto is universally known as one of the greatest video game designers and producers, he actually spends very little time playing video games himself. In his free time he prefers to play music on the guitar, mandolin, and banjo, as well as rearranging furniture.
*Fellow longtime Nintendo employees Takashi Tezuka and Koji Kondo are among Shigeru Miyamoto's best friends.
*Despite being an important figure in Japan and the rest of the world, Miyamoto doesn't appear on Japanese television, as to minimize his chance of being recognized. Because of this, more foreign tourists than Japanese people approach him. He also usually does not sign autographs to fans due to concern that he would be inundated (though he still allows pictures). Although he does know and speak some English, Shigeru is not fluent in this language and prefers to speak in Japanese during interviews.
*Miyamoto has made several quotes well-known to the public, such as "Video games are bad for you? That's what they say about rock and roll.", and "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."
*Fitting for his work in the Nintendogs games, Miyamoto himself is in fact a semi-professional dog breeder.
==Gallery==
File:OoT Nintendo Power Guide Shigeru Miyamoto Signature.png|Signature of Shigeru Miyamoto from 
File:E3 2016 Aonuma and Miyamoto.png|Miyamoto (right) with Eiji Aonuma in the E3 2016
File:Shigeru Miyamoto with Master Sword.jpg|Shigeru in a Zelda game promotion
File:Shigeru Miyamoto 2024.jpg|Miyamoto as of 2024
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