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Shigeru Miyamoto: The Father of Modern Video Games (1x14)
: 10, 2008
Game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has set the gold standard for gaming.
If you play a fair amount of home video games, one thing you'll notice is that they all have a certain general form. Just like movies all have a repeated basic structure that has been crafted over the last 80 years, video games also have a conventional mold that parallels audience expectation. And the guy who really defined that structure—the D.W. Griffith; the Orsen Wells of video games, so to speak—was Shigeru Miyamoto.