Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto Japanese 宮本 茂 Hepburn Miyamoto Shigeru born November 16 1952 is a Japanese video game designer producer and game director at Nintendo where he has served as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002 Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential designers in video games he is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and bestselling game franchises of all time including Mario The Legend of Zelda Donkey Kong Star Fox and Pikmin More than 1 billion copies of games featuring franchises created by Miyamoto have been sold Born in Sonobe Kyoto Miyamoto graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts He initially sought a career as a manga artist until developing an interest in video games With the help of his father he joined Nintendo in 1977 after impressing the president Hiroshi Yamauchi with his toys He helped create art for the arcade game and was later tasked with designing a new one leading to the 1981 game Donkey Kong Miyamotos games Super Mario Bros 1985 and The Legend of Zelda 1986 helped the Nintendo Entertainment System dominate the console game market His games have been flagships of every Nintendo video game console from the arcade machines of the late 1970s to the present day He managed Nintendos Entertainment Analysis Development software division which developed many Nintendo games He played an essential role in creating other influential games such as Pokémon Red and Blue 1996 and Metroid Prime 2002 Following the death of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata in July 2015 Miyamoto became acting president alongside Genyo Takeda until he was formally appointed Creative Fellow a few months later Description above from the Wikipedia article Shigeru Miyamoto licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia