Today, I'd like to tell you about Shigeru Miyamoto, "the Walt Disney of electronic games".
He has been working for Nintendo for many years, since 1977; and during this time he has created many famous videogames characters like Mario Bros., Donkey Kong... His first games were for arcade.
He was born and grew up at Kyoto, and thank to this, he created sagas like "
The Legend of Zelda", which he create being inspired by the outings he did when a child.
In recent years, he won the "Príncipe de Asturias" for Comunication and Humanities.
Now, I give you a text about him:
Time has called Miyamoto "the Spielberg of video games” and
"the father of modern video games," while The Daily
Telegraph says he is "regarded by many as possibly the most important
game designer of all time." GameTrailers called him "the most
influential game creator in history." Miyamoto has significantly
influenced various aspects of the medium. The Daily Telegraph credited
him with creating "some of the most innovative, ground breaking and
successful work in his field.] Many of Miyamoto's works have pioneered new
video game concepts or refined existing ones. Miyamoto's games have received
outstanding critical praise, some being considered the greatest games of all
time.
Miyamoto's games have also sold very well, becoming some of the
best-selling games on Nintendo consoles and of all time. As of 1999, his games
had sold 250 million units and grossed billions of dollars.
Calling him one of the few "video-game auteurs," The
New Yorker credited Miyamoto's role in creating the franchises that drove
console sales, as well as designing the consoles themselves. They described
Miyamoto as Nintendo's "guiding spirit, its meal ticket, and its playful
public face," noting that Nintendo might not exist without him.[3] The
Daily Telegraph similarly attributed Nintendo's success to Miyamoto more
than any other person.
Influence on video
games
Miyamoto's best known and most influential title, Super Mario Bros.,
"depending on your point of view, created an industry or resuscitated a
comatose one The Daily Telegraph called it "a title that set the
standard for all future videogames. G4 noted Super Mario Bros. 's
revolutionary gameplay as well as its role in "almost
single-handedly" rescuing the video game industry The title also
popularized the side-scrolling genre of video games. The New
Yorker described Mario as the first folk hero of video games,
with as much influence as Mickey Mouse
GameSpot featured The
Legend of Zelda as one of the 15 most influential games of all time, for
being an early example of open world, nonlinear gameplay, and for its
introduction of battery backup saving,
laying the foundations for later action-adventure games like Metroid and role-playing
video games like Final Fantasy, while influencing most modern games
in general. In 2009, Game Informer called The Legend of
Zelda "no less than the greatest game of all time" on their list
of "The Top 200 Games of All Time", saying that it was "ahead of
its time by years if not decades".
At the time of the release of Star Fox, the use of filled, three-dimensional polygons in a console game was very
unusual, apart from a handful of earlier titles Due to its success, Star
Fox has become a Nintendo franchise, with five more games and numerous
appearances by its characters in other Nintendo games such as Super Smash
Bros. series.
His game Super Mario 64 left a lasting impression on 3D game
design, particularly notable for its use of a dynamic camera system and
the implementation of its analog control. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of
Time 's gameplay system introduced features such as a target lock system and
context-sensitive buttons that have since become common elements in 3D
adventure games.
The Wii, which Miyamoto played a major role in designing, was the first
wireless motion-controlled video game console. The console helped to attract
"casual" gamers.
