Word: miyamoto
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...Nintendo, which was impressed enough by his previous attempts at game programming to want to develop his latest idea. But he couldn't quite explain the concept to Nintendo, and the company couldn't understand it fully. "At first Pokemon was just an idea, and nothing happened," says Shigeru Miyamoto, the genius behind Nintendo's previous best seller, Super Mario Brothers. Miyamoto became Tajiri's mentor and counseled the younger man as he toiled on what would eventually be Pokemon. (Tajiri would pay ambivalent tribute to Miyamoto, giving the name Shigeru--Gary in the U.S.--to the snotty chief rival...
...katana and the shorter wakizashi, together with their elaborate hilts, scabbards and other fittings, to which a large body of lore and connoisseurship attached. The figure who most vividly expressed the relation between culture and the samurai ethos remained a legend long after his death. He was Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645), who wrote a famous text on swordplay (A Book of Five Rings) and reputedly killed 60 swordsmen before his 30th birthday; he then gave up killing in favor of painting and calligraphy. One of his ink paintings is in the show, a swiftly brushed image of a shrike balanced...
...foolishly perfect world," says master game designer Shigeru Miyamoto almost sheepishly. His team of 140 people labored for three years to create the game, the fifth in the popular Zelda series. The outcome of the video-game wars may well rest on its success. Nintendo hopes Zelda will drive people to buy its console, the N64, closing the gap with Sony's PlayStation. (In the same way, an earlier Miyamoto blockbuster, Donkey Kong, provided the beachhead for the old Super Nintendo Entertainment System.) Some 250,000 customers have already reserved copies of Zelda; demand was so great that Nintendo discontinued...
...better than, Nintendo's best. The latest in the series, Crash Bandicoot: Warped ($49) was shipped to stores on Nov. 3, and it's already a big hit in my home. But clever as it is, Crash now feels to me--after playing Zelda and getting lost in what Miyamoto calls the "miniature garden"--flat and outdated. Worse still, it didn't make me babble. Read more about the new video games at timedigital.com Catch Anita on CNNfn's Digital Jam, Wednesdays...
...Boston Conservatory continues its Piano Masters in Recital program with Denison Duarte, Peter Miyamoto and Hiroko Kunitake. The three won the 1997 American Pianists Association Beethoven Fellowship; however, they will be presenting an all-Chopin recital. 8 p.m. Seully Hall, 8 Fenway, Boston, 912-9122, FREE...