Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto (Japanese宫本 茂, Miyamoto Shigeru, born November 16, 1952 in Sonobe (now Nantan ), Kyoto Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese video game developer in the company Nintendo. He created well-known series such as Super Mario, Pikmin, The Legend of Zelda, F-Zero or Donkey Kong and is one of the main managers of the Company and General Manager of Nintendo's main development department Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development. In this position, he oversees the majority of internal game development.
Miyamoto lives with his family in his hometown of Nantan.
Life
After his studies at the College of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa Miyamoto joined Nintendo in 1977 in the company a. His first task was the case design for two TV games: Racing 112 ( sales start in 1978, Japaneseカラー テレビ ゲーム レーシング112 ), car driving simulation, and Block Kuzushi (1979, Japaneseカラー テレビ ゲーム ブロック 崩し), a collection of various Breakout variants.
For Gunpei Yokois Nintendo R & D1 division designed Miyamoto screen characters for arcade machines. First for Space Fever (1979 ), a Space Invaders clone and subsequently for Sheriff (1979) and Space Firebird (1980). For Sheriff, and another machine, Radar Scope (1980 ), Miyamoto designed the artwork for the case.
After these first duty tasks he started the implementation of a Popeye machine which, however, did not appear until later due to licensing problems. Previously, the slot game Donkey Kong was completed, with the Miyamoto made the breakthrough. His character Mario (then called Jumpman ) became a classic and has since appeared again and again in video games. With Mario, he made it, " Nintendo of ailing takeover candidates for temporary largest computer games company in the world ." Numerous other well-known Nintendo characters come from him, such as Link from the game series The Legend of Zelda.
In 1998, Miyamoto was recorded as the first member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences ' Hall of Fame, and in March 2006 he received the Order of Culture French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to the game programming. As part of the Game Developers Conference 2007 he was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award ", a special award for his life's work awarded. The Internet platform IGN sat Miyamoto No. 1 on the Top 100 Game Creators of All Time. In early 2010 he was awarded at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival once again for his life's work.
Today he no longer self- developed, but is a senior executive for many large projects of Nintendo. Currently it is known that Miyamoto is involved in the development of Pikmin 3 for the Wii U, Luigi 's Mansion 2 for the 3DS and an entirely new game.
Miyamoto was the Prince of Asturias Prize awarded in 2012 in the category "Communication and Human Sciences" ( comunicación y Humanidades ).
Special
Miyamoto is known that he likes elements of real life in his video game designs integrated: The occurring in many Mario games " watchdog " for example, is based on a childhood memory of him. The idea to Gamecube strategy game Pikmin he came, as he watched ants in his garden. A bathroom scales inspired him to Wii Fit and the visit of a dog training course for his new Shetland Sheepdog earned him the idea for Nintendogs. The idea for The Legend of Zelda came to him as he got as a child in a cave near his home town. He wanted to convey the thrill he felt it, even other people.
According to his own statements, many games are dominated by German influences. As an example, he cites the architecture. So the castles were modeled in the games German castles.