Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

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• 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

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Forever, Delayed

  "Shigeru Miyamoto: A rushed game is forever bad" by Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Inspirational, Motivational, Playing Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Challenges, Standards, Enjoy

  "Shigeru Miyamoto Talk Asia Interview". "TalkAsia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. February 15, 2007.

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

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Artist, Player, Reality

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• Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Children, Character, Thinking

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• A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Ideas, Problem, Multiple

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• What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Warrior, Thinking, Doors

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• So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Girl, Cat, Interesting

  "Live From Nintendo's E3 Briefing: More On Zelda, 3DS, Pikmin" by Luke Plunkett, kotaku.com. July 15, 2010.

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

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  New Experiences, Games, People

  "The Year In Violence" by Michael Thomsen, www.ign.com. December 18, 2007.

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• A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Ideas, Doe, Problem

  "Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto" by Johnny Minkley, www.eurogamer.net. March 31, 2010.

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• It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Creating, Creating Something

  Game Developers Conference, 2011.

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

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Philosophy, Challenges, Trying

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• When I'm working on games I don't think necessarily about what the end benefit of the game is going to be. Typically I'm trying to think of: "What can I do that is going to find new ways to entertain and surprise people."

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Thinking, Games, People

  "Miyamoto To Mtv: Why 'Wii Fit' Is Not 'Mario Fit' -- Also Talks The Pleasure Of Goals, Hardcore Gamer Complaints And New Characters". Interview with Stephen Totilo, www.mtv.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Fun, Work, New Experiences

  "The man who made ''Mario'' super". Interview with Geoff Keighley, ew.com. May 8, 2007.

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• Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Country, Art, Player

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

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Player, Games, Focus

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

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Views, Different, Saws

  "Shigeru Miyamoto: 'I'm the person who saw things differently'". Interview with Chris Schilling, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• 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

  Thinking, Trying, Entertainment

  "E3 Interview: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. July 19, 2007.

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• 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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  Jobs, Thinking, Artist

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• An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Children, Ethics And Morals, Adults

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• As long as I can enjoy something, other people can enjoy it, too.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Long, People, Enjoy

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• I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Thinking, Talking, Attention

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• 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

  Games, People, Creative

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

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Development, Want

  "Nintendo's Miyamoto Stepping Down, Working On Smaller Games". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. December 7, 2011.

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