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Born: November 16, 1952, in Sonobe, Kyoto, Japan
Personal Success Definition
I define success as something that everyone can achieve but as something that everyone also has to work for.
Miyamoto changed the way Nintendo worked by using his ideas merged with some other influences to create great games like Donkey Kong. This lead Miyamoto to be a game designer for Nintendo instead of him being an apprentice in the planing department.
Skills for Success
Miyamoto is an 1) out of the box thinker, who 2) uses multiple inspirations 3) to create enjoyable experiences. Miyamoto created Donkey Kong using a new play style and his inspirations of the cartoon Popeye, the movie Kong, and Beauty and the Beast. He created legendary games that any person who knows anything about games knows about. (1)
How They Used These Skills
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Shigeru Miyamoto was successful because of his ability to create popular game ideas. This showed the people at Nintendo that Miyamoto had skills that would lead him to becoming game designer at Nintendo. Also, because of his non-stop hits of games, he still has his position as game designer.
Challenges Overcome
Shigeru Miyamoto had to face many challenges over his career when making games, like all game designers, but there were a lot in the game Super Mario 64. An example of this would be that when Mario in SM64 needed to make a long jump the game registered the jump if the player was close enough. (2)
Significant Work
When the Wii was announced, it was announced with Shigeru Miyamoto leading a orchestra of miis that would play at the speed of his conduction with the Wii Remote.