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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: xnikki118x on August 15, 2008, 02:28:32 AM

Title: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: xnikki118x on August 15, 2008, 02:28:32 AM
So I don't know if this belongs in the gaming forum or not, but since it's about a creator and not games themselves I put it here. Sorry if I misjudged!

http://www.videogames.yahoo.com/feature/mario-creator-gagged-by-nintendo-brass/1237101

Mario creator gagged by Nintendo brass
What the legendary game maker does in his spare time is their business.

By Ben Silverman

When he isn't designing groundbreaking video games, Shigeru Miyamoto partakes in a variety of interesting hobbies. And Nintendo doesn't want you to know what they are.

Citing anonymous Nintendo sources, the Times Online reports that the man responsible for smash franchises like Mario and Zelda has been banned by Nintendo from chatting about his non-game interests, apparently because they "could be worth billions."

If history serves, they're probably right -- Miyamoto has a lengthy track record of converting his hobbies into lucrative games. Plant-based strategy game Pikmin, for instance, was born out of his love for gardening. After his family got a dog, the rest of the world adopted Nintendogs. Most recently, he revealed that exercise game Wii Fit was a direct result of the master designer obsessively weighing himself after turning 50.

Both Nintendo and Miyamoto have, unsurprisingly, remained silent on the matter.



...that's kinda funny to me and I don't know why. Maybe his family recently got a hamster, but he can't talk about it because he might create a game about hamsters someday. Whut? :D
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: Reb on August 15, 2008, 02:58:26 AM
He makes games for Wii, so either way it's in the right section.
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: cool breeze on August 15, 2008, 03:11:04 AM
He probably plays video games; I guess Nintendo wants him to separate business from pleasure.
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: laesperanzapaz on August 15, 2008, 03:51:47 AM
what would've sickened me the most is that some of these tow-the-line gaming journos and nintenfarts actually think this fake charlatan who became irrelevant since the GC launch actually matters now [except sales and marketing PR-wise, of course]

of course, im not REALLy sickened by this because i know i dont giveashit
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: Darunia on August 15, 2008, 04:14:04 AM
miyamoto  ::)

redeem yourself by creating a new, real, ip and we'll talk. pikmin happened 50 years ago
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: Cormacaroni on August 15, 2008, 04:16:00 AM
He's an older japanese squire, next games are basically :

WiiOnsen, WiiForgetshit, and WiiSoapland.


WiiSoapland could make FANTASTIC use of both waggle and the balance board.
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 15, 2008, 09:25:33 AM
miyamoto  ::)

redeem yourself by creating a new, real, ip and we'll talk. pikmin happened 50 years ago

Plus, pikmin is basically a watered down, crappy console rts.  It's only notable because of Miyamoto.  Yawn of a series total.

mojo- I'm pretty sure that's Ally Sheedy from the Breakfast Club.
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: Tauntaun on August 15, 2008, 09:40:12 AM
Darunia, who is that chick in your Avatars?

That looks like the "goth" chick from The Breakfast Club.
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: bagofeyes on August 15, 2008, 09:52:39 AM
Yeah, Ally Sheedy
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: abrader on August 15, 2008, 09:54:25 AM
I dont want to know the mechanics of a game based on Miyamoto having received a hamster :(

Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: Tauntaun on August 15, 2008, 09:56:51 AM
I dont want to know the mechanics of a game based on Miyamoto having received a hamster :(

Hamster: Furry City

bow chicka wooowww wowww
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 15, 2008, 10:02:36 AM
"wii like it up the butt" confirmed; 1:1 strap-on waggle action
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: GilloD on August 15, 2008, 10:28:38 AM
I can't wait to see how he spins his habit of killing and eating prostitutes into WAGGLE GOLD
Title: Re: miyamoto's hobbies
Post by: Tucah on August 15, 2008, 10:36:12 AM
I read the URL as Mario Creater Gagged By Nintendo Breasts.

Anyway, I hope Miyamoto's next hobby is reading Mary Worth and he creates a waggle filled, heart pounding, breathtakingly exciting Mary Worth Wii game.