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Normally, such behavior would not get you far in the land of white-shirted "salarymen." But Shigeru Miyamoto, 43, has reached the top in the rarefied world of video-game designers by consistently creating games that kids can't resist. As a result, he's as revered as a rock star--and not just in Japan. Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and movie directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have all traveled to Nintendo's famed E.A.D. (Entertainment Analysis and Development) lab in Kyoto to meet the man known as the Spielberg of video games...
Hired in 1977 as the company's first staff artist, Miyamoto designed the popular Donkey Kong game four years later by combining themes from two of his favorite stories, King Kong and Beauty and the Beast. In 1985 he turned a sketch of a pint-size workman in a cap and droopy mustache into Mario the Plumber, the world's best-selling video-game character (total worldwide sales of Mario games in all formats: $5.85 billion...
Creating a successful game within the strict confines of a cartridge player requires cramming a cast of characters and their play environment into the computer equivalent of a Tokyo love hotel. But Miyamoto says Nintendo 64's powerful new graphics capabilities will change all that. "Up to now, we have had trouble making games look as real as possible," he says. "But now these problems have been solved. These new engines will be a real challenge to game creators...
...Ryan Miyamoto, a Germantown, Md. high schoolsenior who was contacted by Harvard as a footballprospect earlier this year, said he had heardabout the incident from Princeton's footballcoach...
...told me that one of Princeton's recruitswas up at Harvard and got jumped," Miyamoto said...