#marioseriesquote

PEOPLE:

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 62. Creator of Zelda & Mario.

QUOTE: Q: Mario has been a boxing referee, a doctor, an Olympian, and a carpenter. Are all these official careers in Mario lore? If he has a medical degree, why does he continue his plumbing business?

PEOPLE:

Takashi Tezuka, age 54. Co-Creator of the Zelda series. Producer or director of 17+ Super Mario Bros. games.

PEOPLE:

Takashi Tezuka, age 59. Co-creator of the Zelda series. Director or Producer of over 20 Mario games.

QUOTE: Tezuka: It is the basic premise of Super Mario games that we can naturally enjoy Mario’s actions. The technical aspects may be different between 2D and 3D games, but this remains the same.

PEOPLE:

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 62. Creator of Zelda & Mario.

QUOTE: Q: Some people claim that Mario and Luigi's last name is "Mario." Are their names officially Mario Mario and Luigi Mario?

PEOPLE:

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Creator of Zelda & Mario.

Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo.

QUOTE: Miyamoto: Even if you slip up just before clearing the castle [in a Mario game], you'll be sent right back to the starting point. Maybe this is all due to my nasty streak! [laughs] But I think playing at that level of intensity is actually the most enjoyable way to play.

Iwata: You think it's more fun to have to play from the start of the level again?

Miyamoto: With platform games, only playing the difficult parts can really take it out of you. It feels good to play parts that you can breeze through as well. …

Iwata: That's why rather than having lots of checkpoints where you can save your position, it's better to play through the easy part again.

PEOPLE:

Satoru Iwata, age 49. Producer for Kirby Super Star. President of Nintendo.

Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer of The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros., and other Zelda titles.

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Producer for Kirby Super Star, Creator of Zelda and Mario.

QUOTE: "Iwata: [Multiplayer] is one of the ideas that he returns to with every Mario game. It's a fair while ago now, but I once went to see Miyamoto-san to propose an idea for [Kirby Super Star (1996)]. He then set me a task to work on, saying: ‘We keep trying it every time with Mario but just can't seem to pull it off. Why don't we try having a multiplayer mode in Kirby?’

Nakago: So even though you'd gone to propose an idea to him, Miyamoto-san actually turned the tables and proposed one to you? [laughs]