Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer. He cocreated the Mario Donkey Kong The Legend of Zelda FZero Pikmin and Nintendogs franchises for Nintendo game consoles and mostly works on games as a producer. He has also supervised many titles published by Nintendo on behalf of other developers including Metroid Prime and Mario Sonic at the Olympic Games. Miyamoto is a worldrenowned game designer and has been called the father of modern video games and the Walt Disney of electronic gaming Video games designed by him typically feature refined controlmechanics intuitive gameplay simple story lines and imaginative worlds in which the players are encouraged to discover things by themselves. Employed by Nintendo as an artist in 1977 he was given the task of working on one of their first coinoperated arcade games. The resulting title was Radar Scope which was not as successful in the United States as Nintendo had hoped. Miyamoto later reused the games hardware and modified it into Donkey Kong which was a huge success as well as a turning point in video game history. The games lead character Mario then called Jumpman became an easily recognizable video game character and Nintendos mascot. Miyamoto quickly became Nintendos star producer designing many franchises for the company most of which are still active. Source: Wikipedia