Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes - Page 2

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• I am not Link, but I do know him! Even after 18 years, the Legend of Zelda never stops changing and this game is no different. We are now taking you to a world where Link has grown up--a world where he will act different and look different. In order to grow, Link must not stand still and neither will I.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Order, Years, Games

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• I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

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  Character, Player, Thinking

  "Q&A: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto On <cite>mario</cite>, <cite>zelda</cite>, Project Natal And More". Interview With Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. June 12, 2009.

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• There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.

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  Thinking, Play, Games

  "Shigeru Miyamoto: A rushed game is forever bad". Interview with Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

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  Mother, Fun, Memories

  "It Started With A Guy In Overalls". Interview with Satoru Iwata, www.nintendo.co.uk.

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• So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.

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  Important, Helping, Conservative

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• This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

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  Games, People, Creative

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• A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time

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  Games, Ships, Ends

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• Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!

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  Clothes, Looks, Mario

  "Mario Mania Player's Guide". 1991.

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• Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

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  Games, Garbage Cans, Nuisance

  "E3 Interview: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. July 19, 2007.

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• You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

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  Technology, Different, Use

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• I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

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  Thinking, Talking, Attention

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• Entertainment companies always have to stay on the edge of trying to catch that certain thing that will grab people's attention. And that thing is always changing. Nintendo has been doing this for a long, long time. Originally, we weren't even a video game company, but we were still an entertainment company. So I can't say what that next thing is, but I can say, at Nintendo we're trying to create new ways to play.

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  Games, Play, Long

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I think everyone can enjoy games.

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  Thinking, Games, Enjoy

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. February 15, 2007.

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• I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

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  Movie, Games, People

  "Beyond the shoot-em-up: how gaming got killer stories" by Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2014.

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• I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.

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  Thinking, Trying, Done

  "Shigeru Miyamoto: 'I'm the person who saw things differently'". Interview with Chris Schilling, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

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  Technology, Technique, Different

  "What Makes Shigeru Miyamoto Tick". Interview With Stephen Totilo, kotaku.com. July 6, 2016.

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• When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.

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  Games, Levels, Firsts

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• Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.

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  Children, Thinking, Hands

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• Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

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  Mean, Important, Entertainment

  "Shigeru Miyamoto: 'I'm the person who saw things differently'". Interview with Chris Schilling, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• All the time, players are forced to do their utmost. If they are challenged to the limit, is it really fun for them?

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  Fun, Player, Limits

  "Master of Play" by Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. December 20 & 27, 2010.

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• We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.

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  Games, People, Attention

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• Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself with more advanced games.

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  Attitude, Moving, Games

  "Nintendo’s Miyamoto Talks Passive Attitude of Casual Gamers, it’s 'a Pathetic Thing'" by Joey Davidson, www.technobuffalo.com. August 31, 2014.

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• I don't let Mario appear in just any kind of game. Mario could not appear in Zelda games. They are two distinct game worlds.

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  Games, Two, World

  Next Generation magazine, Volume 4 No. 46, October 1998.

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• Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

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  Games, Careers, Boxes

  "Shigeru Miyamoto: A rushed game is forever bad". Interview with Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

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  Unique, Thinking, Important

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