Quotes from Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

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.

Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.

It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

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.

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

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

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

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.

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 don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

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.

I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

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.

What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

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.

There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.