Quotes By Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.

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

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!

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.

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 don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

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.

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.