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Japanese - Designer Born: November 16, 1952

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.

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Video Games Think Difficult Play

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

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People Video Games New Games

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.

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Heart Child Think More

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

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Path Challenge Never New

A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.

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Good Game Bad Forever Delayed

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

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Society Video Games Want Garbage

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

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View Person Like Point Of View

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.

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Today I Am People Long

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

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Game Reality Own Create

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

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You Challenge Enjoy New

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I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.

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You Experience Feel Think

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

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Shoes Game Support Job

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

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People Movies Want Say

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

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You Value Something Create

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.

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You Video Games Bad Said Games

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

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Focus Game Emotions Play

I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether.

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Game Saying Development Going

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

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Music Game Purpose Sound

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

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Want Next Super Mario

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

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Unique Something Make Different

Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

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Work Game Thinking New

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

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People Thinking Enjoy Thought

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

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Funny People Habit Japanese

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

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Character Imagination View Think

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.

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Friends Enjoy Reading Appreciate

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.

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You Style Sitting Story

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