Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto () is a creator Japan board of Video game. It made its career at Nintendo, for which it created, inter alia, the characters of Super Mario (Mario and Luigi, Donkey Kong,…) of '' The Legend off Zelda '' and more recently of Pikmin. It is called the Spielberg of the video games .

Biography

Born on November 16th 1952 with Sonobe, it is impassioned very early for the drawing, the music, and the puppets. At 17 years, it enters in Kanasawa Municipal Arts and Grafts College, where it spends 5 years before taking down its diploma, in 1974. It has a formation of industrial designer, and drew in particular davits (in the shape of elephants). Engaged by Nintendo as artistic director in 1977 (by Hiroshi Yamauchi), it started by being interested in the design terminals of arcades. In three months he invented Donkey Kong, a play of arcade of which he designed the case and directed the design. These were an enormous success which made it possible at Nintendo to be established in America. He took then the direction of the unit R & D 4 (fame EAD), in charge of the development of play. General-purpose (type-setter of musics, Developer, Designer, officer projects), it can however delegate, by giving up for example its role of type-setter, in particular with the profit of Koji Kondo as of Mario Bros . It takes an undeniable share in the success of Nintendo.

Its work marked the video game in all its fields, with plays like Super Mario Bros. (play more sold of all times), Super Mario 64 a great classic of the play of platform, the series of the Mario Kart , without forgetting one of the sagas most popular of the video game, The Legend off Zelda like its great implication in the development of Goldeneye , FPS worship of the N64 , which is one of FPS the most sold with the world. In the field of the play in itself, it created the sight of top, or scrolling vertical . One can also note that in Donkey Kong , the player can anticipate the movements, which was an innovation. Nonglad to allot the largest success videoludic of the firm, Miyamoto implies in the design of the consoles with the drawing of the levers of Nintendo 64, GameCube and the design of the Super Born. Among the projections of the video game where he played a importantn part, one finds: creation of the directional cross, cartridge and safeguard, buttons under the indices (L and R), joystick console, trigger, vibration.

With Hiroshi Yamauchi, it incarnates the design Nintendo consoles: “One does not create the products according to the console, but the console according to the products. ” A slogan which can appear shifted with respect to the current policy of Nintendo, which with Wii, precisely forces the developers to be yielded with technical specificities of the console and especially of its lever.

Monday March 13rd 2006, it received the badge of Chevalier in the order of arts and the letters of the hands of the French Ministre for the Culture and the Communication Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres with, amongst other things, these words:

“It is with this formidable inventiveness in confrontation between artistic creation and new technologies, it is with the ingeniousness of the artist in the design of original numerical universes, that I particularly wish to pay homage today. You are one of the best ambassadors of this planetary universe and one of its personalities more attaching. ” -- Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres

Miyamoto is devoted from now on to Wii (the new console of Nintendo) and to its lever. It for example took part in the realization of The Legend off Zelda: Twilight Princess left on December 8th, 2006, and carried out Super Mario Galaxy, which for its part left on November 16th, 2007 to Europe, the day of its 55 years.

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