Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he has served as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential designers in video games, he is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and best-selling game franchises of all time, including Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox and Pikmin. More than 1 billion copies of games featuring franchises created by Miyamoto have been sold.
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Background
- Born in
- Sonobe
- Educated at
- Kanazawa College of Art
- Awards
- 🏆 BAFTA Fellowship🏆 Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities🏆 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
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1952
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