Satoru Iwata started in games as a programmer with HAL Laboratory in 1980, and passed away 35 years later as president of Nintendo. He has credits in 507 games on MobyGames, but over his entire career, he programmed just four Mario games.
They were all golf games.
(The Famicom Disk System games are Golf: Japan Course and Golf: US Course; they came out between Golf and NES Open Tournament Golf and share elements of both.)
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