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" Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Bad
Video Games
You
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" Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Funny
People
Names
" 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. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
People
Trying
Movies
" What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Actually
Want
Super
" People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Good
Think
Taste
" Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Anything
Living
Play
" Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Entertainment
Important
Providing
" I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Always
Clear
Up
" The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Video Games
People
Obvious
" I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Active
Swimming
Sports
" Players are artists who create their own reality within the game. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Who
Within
Reality
" I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Create
New
Much
" 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 description. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Creative
Stand Up
Mind
" 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. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Think
Job
Seeing
" Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Challenge
Easy
Path
" I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
New
Experience
Game
" I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Who
View
Point Of View
" 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
Enjoy
Friends
Reading
" 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
Inside
Heart
Child
" I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Think
History
Time
" You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Value
Create
Different
" A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Delayed
Bad
Good
" To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
You
Challenge
Create
" What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Opportunities
People
Today
" I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Talk
Problem
You
" 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. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Now
Garbage
Want
" What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Want
Again
Development
" I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Like
Weird
Pretending
" I wanted to make something very unique, something very different. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Different
Something
Unique
" 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
Internet
People
Single
" I think everyone can enjoy games. "
Shigeru Miyamoto
Everyone
Games
I Think