Shigeru Miyamoto

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Role

Director | Writer

Date of birth

11/16/1952

Place of birth

Sonobe cho, Kyoto, Japan

Shigeru Miyamoto

Biography

Shigeru Miyamato has been helping create games for Nintendo since 1981. In the late 1970s Nintendo was going bankrupt. Myamato then made two characters, Donkey Kong and Mario (then called Jumpman), for the game Donkey Kong (1981). He has been the supervisor of many games, like the Mario and Zelda games.

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