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Video games produced by Shigeru Miyamoto

  • Super Mario Bros.Super Mario Bros., Nintendo's 1985 platform game, had only about 20 bytes of cartridge space left once its music was added. Shigeru Miyamoto spent them on a small crown. The crown appears beside the life counter, and only for players who…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link's AwakeningThe Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening reached players in 1993 as the first Zelda adventure ever made for a handheld console. Nintendo developed and published it for the Game Boy, a machine with a monochrome screen that could go anywhere…
  • Metroid PrimeMetroid Prime first reached the public as a ten-second video at Space World 2000, a flicker of footage for a game that would not appear on shelves until 2002. When it did arrive on the GameCube, published by Nintendo, it carried the weight…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a 2006 action-adventure game from Nintendo, owes part of its identity to a strange dream. Its director, Eiji Aonuma, dreamed during an overseas business trip that he was a wolf locked inside a cage.…
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the PastThe Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past reached Japanese players in 1991 as the third entry in Nintendo's Zelda series. It was built for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and it followed Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, which…
  • The Legend of Zelda (video game)The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo's game about a boy named Link, began, by its designer's own account, with a lake. Shigeru Miyamoto remembered it this way: "When I was a child, I went hiking and found a lake. It was quite a surprise for me to…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TimeThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time holds an average score of 99/100 on Metacritic, the highest of any game on that review aggregator. Nintendo developed and published it for the Nintendo 64, and it was the first Zelda game built in three…
  • Super Mario WorldOn the 21st of November 1990, Super Mario World reached Japanese players under the longer title Super Mario World: Super Mario Bros. 4. It was one of only two launch games for Nintendo's new Super Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan.…
  • Pokémon Red, Blue, and YellowPokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow began as a pitch that Nintendo's own staff could not make sense of. In 1990, the game developer Satoshi Tajiri described his concept to them, and the response was skepticism. They judged his ideas too…
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind WakerThe Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker sold 4.6 million copies on the GameCube. That sounds like a triumph until it is set beside the 7.6 million copies that Ocarina of Time had sold. Nintendo released this 2002 adventure to enormous critical…
  • Super Mario Bros. 3Super Mario Bros. 3, a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, was more than thirty years old on the 20th of November 2020. That day, a sealed copy sold for 156,000 dollars. At the time, nobody had ever paid more for a video…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's MaskA grimacing moon looms over the land of Termina in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Nintendo released the game for the Nintendo 64 in 2000. The moon is predicted to strike at dawn on the day of the Carnival of Time, an annual harvest…
  • Super Mario GalaxySuper Mario Galaxy is a Nintendo platform game in which Mario runs around tiny worlds shaped like ice cream and apples. It appeared on the Wii, and the people building it were not all sure the idea would work. Some feared the technology…

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