Quotes By Shigeru Miyamoto

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

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.

I think everyone can enjoy games.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

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.

It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

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.

What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself.

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

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.

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.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

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

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

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.

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

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

Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D!

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.

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.

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

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

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.

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.

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.

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.

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.