035 0 0 1 6 . Born in the small town of Sonobe, Japan, he has been considered one of the most innovative, admired, prolific, influential, and acclaimed video game developers. Shigeru Miyamoto has created some pastel imposible the industry’s most lucrative franchises and is credited in a variety of titles that have been lauded by virtually all critics.
His contributions for the science and art of the medium within the technical software side of game development is considered to be unparalleled when it comes to having a profound impact and enduring legacy. He has appeared in Time’s Top 100 and was rated the greatest video game designer of all time by IGN. He has been described by fans and gamers in general across the board as the “Stan Lee” and “Walt Disney” of video games. When he was a child he would explore the surrounding areas of his town and many of his childhood experiences would go on to influence his video games. In Kyoto there was a cave that Miyamoto frequently went to but didn’t muster the courage to enter. As a child he would partake in various other activities such as drawing, painting, playing baseball and participating in puppet shows. Miyamoto’s family didn’t have a car or a television.
On very few occasions per year, he and his family would venture to the city in Kyoto via train and would enjoy going to movie theaters to watch a film, particularly those made by Walt Disney. Little did Shigeru Miyamoto know that he would eventually be considered the “Walt Disney of video games”. One thing that was very evident to him was that he wanted to become an artist of some sort. According to him, he has said that he wasn’t a very good student and wouldn’t attend class as he was supposed to but rather enjoyed various unrelated luxuries. He became interested in the banjo, and made a band with some of his fellow classmates and performed in numerous venues in Japan. Some of his musical inspirations included The Beatles, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Doc Watson.
Design and would thereafter be given a proposal to work at Nintendo in 1977. Hiroshi Yamauchi was the president of Nintendo and Miyamoto’s father was a friend of his. Amazingly, Miyamoto got hired as a Concept Artist for Nintendo and would be required to plan new products for Nintendo to develop. Miyamoto once said that one reason he joined the company was because of the wide range of products they were creating and thought that “they’ll let me do what I want to”. Hiroshi Yamauchi had just hired a man who would soon become the most important employee at Nintendo. The first project Miyamoto was involved with at Nintendo was making the housing designs for Color TV Racing 112 and a Blockbuster Color TV Game.
Nintendo had been interested in the video game market for some time. They had created moderate successes and mediocre games, most of which were clones of other titles. Back in North America, a shipment of three thousand Radar Scope units finally arrived in the United States after around four months at sea. By the time they got to Nintendo of America, the game was considered outdated, and they only managed to move 1,000 of them. Yamauchi was reluctant because everyone who was worthwhile within Nintendo was hard at work on other projects but he agreed nonetheless, knowing that he’d have to dig deeper within Nintendo to find someone who would be able to create a game.