shigeru miyamoto

  • Shigeru Miyamoto And The Damsel In Distress

    Shigeru Miyamoto And The Damsel In Distress

    Shigeru Miyamoto made Donkey Kong, and, in the process, put a woman on top of some girders for Mario to rescue. His Super Mario and Zelda series perpetually involve saving a princess. If we’re going to talk about women in games, we should talk to him about it, right? Last week, I did.


  • Why Is Luigi Green?

    “…because of memory limitations, the second character had to be identical to the first character in appearance,” says Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. “And so we looked at that and said ‘Well even if we have the same character, we could potentially change the colour of the character.’