Shigeru Miyamoto
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Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, producer, game director and filmmaker at Nintendo, where he has served as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. Widely reg
Miyamoto in 2015
Miyamoto graduated from Kanazawa College of Art in Ishikawa Prefecture.
Miyamoto's Super Mario Bros. was bundled with the NES in America. The game and the system are credited with helping to bring North America out of the slump of the 1983 game industry crash.
Miyamoto was responsible for the controller design of the Super Famicom/Nintendo. Its L/R buttons were an industry first and have since become commonplace.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is a 2002 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. An installment in The Legend of Zelda series, it was released in Japan on Dece
North American packaging artwork variant, depicting Link and the King of Red Lions
The Wind Waker's cel-shaded art style makes use of real-time lighting and effects like depth-of-field blur, making the game look stylistically similar to a cartoon and setting it apart from other games in the series.
Comparison of the graphics from Wind Waker HD (bottom) with those from the original GameCube version.
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