#donkeykongquote

PEOPLE:

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 58. Creator of Zelda & Mario. General Manager of Nintendo EAD.

QUOTE: Miyamoto: The reason Mario is a plump shape is because gaming devices at that time could only read collisions between square boxes, not because I wanted to make him cute. His design turned out like that because I adjusted for the capabilities of the gaming device of the day.

PEOPLE:

Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Main Programmer on Excitebike, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda.

Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo.

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Director of Excitebike, Producer & Director of Super Mario Bros. & The Legend of Zelda.

QUOTE: Iwata: So your job was to port arcade games like Donkey Kong over to the Famicom?

Nakago: That's right. Then around the time that job was coming to an end, someone I didn't know came up behind me and said: “You're Nakago-san, right?” And that turned out to be Miyamoto-san.

Iwata: So even though you'd ported Donkey Kong across to the NES, you didn't know Miyamoto-san? [laughs]

PEOPLE:

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Director of Donkey Kong. Creator of Zelda.

Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo.

QUOTE: Miyamoto: [For Donkey Kong] I drew [Jumpman’s] eyes, nose, mouth and…

Iwata: There's absolutely no way that you had enough pixels, right?

M: Right, there weren't enough. Before you know it, you've used up 8x8 pixels. But if you draw a nose then a moustache, you don't really know if it's a mouth or a moustache, and it saves pixels.

I: So if you draw a moustache, you don't have to draw a mouth.

PEOPLE:

Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo.

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Director of Donkey Kong. Creator of Zelda, Mario, & more.

QUOTE: "Iwata: The ‘board’ that you just mentioned is the circuit board inside the arcade game cabinet. At that time, there was a fair amount of individuality, shall we say, in each machine and, depending on the specific type of hardware, there were different limitations imposed.