JAKARTA – Let’s remember who it is Creator game phenomenal Mario Bros? A game that can cross several generations from the past to the present.
Reported by various sources, Thursday (8/31/2023), this legendary game was created by Shigeru Miyamoto. He was born on November 16, 1952 in Sonobe, Kyoto.
In the gaming world, the name Shigeru is a legend. He has created a number of successful game creations on the market such as Donkey Kong, Star Fox, Pikmin and Legend of Zelda.
In his childhood, he lived simply in a rural environment. As a result, Shigeru often creates his own toys which give him a lot of imagination.
He is used to drawing and creating his own stories about various imaginative characters. Furthermore, Shigeru also likes walking in the forest or climbing mountains.
When he was little, Shigeru admitted that his experiences as a child were a source of inspiration in making his legendary games. He likes to remember his happy childhood.
Shigeru Miyamoto attended Kanazawa Munici College of Art & Industrial Design. However, he admitted that he was not the typical good student and that he was not as disciplined in going to class as he should have been.
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However, he actually explored various other things that had nothing to do with academics. He was interested in the banjo instrument and formed a band with several of his classmates. They performed in various places in Japan. Some of his musical inspirations include The Beatles, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Doc Watson.
After graduation, he joined Nintendo, which was initially a relatively small Japanese company. They sell toys like cards. In the mid-1960s, Nintendo began to explore gaming products.
Thanks to his father’s contacts, Shigeru had the opportunity to join by becoming an intern. Shigeru played a role in the creation of early Nintendo games such as Sheriff and Radar Scope, released in 1980.
The Donkey Kong game became one of the hit games and saved Nintendo. However, Shigeru did not let this achievement lull him until he decided to make another game based on the Donkey Kong characters. The character of Jump Man was chosen to be Mario and added his brother’s character named Luigi. This is how the Mario Bross game was created.
Nintendo then launched the Nintendo Entertainment System game console. Shigeru again became a key figure by creating two legendary game titles on this console, Super Mario Bros and Legend of Zelda. In both games, Shigeru focused on interesting gameplay rather than high scores, which was obviously different from other games at the time.
Interestingly, a Nintendo of America employee noted that Mario looked a lot like a plumber. As a result, Shigeru revised Mario’s profession and placed the new game in the sewers of Brooklyn.
This game like Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr invites players to collect coins, countering various types of enemies. Every player playing multiplayer mode has the same goal of earning more coins. Like Donkey Kong, this game achieved success very quickly.
As a result, Shigeru Miyamoto was moved to a new position, where he would control the entire games division of what would eventually become the world’s leading video game developer. This division was created so that Nintendo could make games specifically for the newly released Famicom, which came out a year earlier.
Recognition for his hard work has come from various quarters, such as Time Magazine, which once called Shigeru the Stephen Spielberg of the gaming world. Meanwhile, the well-known British media Telegraph called him the most influential game designer of all time.
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