Mario's dad

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:

Impact

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.