Quotes by Shigeru Miyamoto

About Shigeru Miyamoto:

Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer and producer. He is best known as the creator of some of the best-selling, most critically acclaimed, most enduring, and most influential games and franchises of all time.
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Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.

Shigeru Miyamoto

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

Shigeru Miyamoto

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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 des...

Shigeru Miyamoto

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

Shigeru Miyamoto

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D!

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Today, there are many, many ways to entertain people in one single videogame. And the Internet has made it so easy for people to ask for clues.

Shigeru Miyamoto

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

Shigeru Miyamoto

What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself.

Shigeru Miyamoto

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Author Bio

  • NameShigeru Miyamoto
  • DescriptionJapanese video game designer and producer
  • BornNovember 16, 1952
  • CountryJapan
  • ProfessionDesigner; Programmer; Artist
  • WorksMario; Luigi; Princess Peach
  • AwardsChevalier Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Princess Of Asturias Award - Communications And Humanities