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Re last edit: People don't cite him as just great, he really is considered the greatest by quite a margin.
Pronunciation
How about a pronounciation guide for his name? -- BradDaBugaa
shy-jair-oo me-ah-moe-toe
- Actually, it should be "Shee-geh-roo Mee-ya-moe-toe" Fieari 03:31, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
More like Shee-geh-roh Mee-ya-moh-toh if you want to pronouce it the way Japanese people pronounce it, which is the correct one. Shaojian 20:59, Oct 23 2005 (UTC)
"Greatest" ?
Many hold that that title goes to Sid Meier or Will Wright. Myself, I think it goes to Chris Crawford, though of course I'm nearly alone in that. :) Moreover it's easy to think Shigeru Miyamoto is the greatest game designer in the world if he's the only designer whose name you actually know. Certainly Miyamoto's games have been among the best selling, but that's usually only one factor in determining the "best"; it can even be argued it's no factor at all.
--Furrykef 16:24, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
Greatest? Maybe. Most influential? Arguably. Weirdest. More than likely. Most charasmatic? That gets my vote.
Yes...
Donkey Kong was one of (Or very well be) the first games ever created that had a story (If you pay attention that is)
"Modern" ?
One of the fathers of the modern video game? Can someone name a classical or ancient video game? --Andy M. 10:02, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Burgertime, perhaps. Andre (talk) 16:50, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
- There were over a decade of black & white blob videogames before Donkey Kong (or Burgertime). "Modern video game" isn't well-defined yet, but the adjective communicates something. -- Skierpage 21:21, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
"Ancient" videogame
When Miyamoto created "Donkey Kong," he started the move towards actual characters. "Donkey Kong" was a forerunner of video games in that it involved characters with faces and expression as opposed to mishapen colored blobs. Though it may seem inconsequential, "DK" was the begining of the era of video games that involve detail and realism.
Biography
This section has a few errors.
Chronological Tweaks
I made two edits to help the timeline make sense. I cut "Miyamoto has dedicated his life to video game designing and planning" from the end of the paragraph about him getting hired at Nintendo, since it would be three more years at that point until he began devoting his life to gaming. In the pargraph about the creation of Donkey Kong, I changed "...and composing the music himself on a small electronic keyboard for Super Mario," deleting "...for Super Mario", since it's a discussion of a game in which Mario was known as Jumpman! If this is incorrect (i.e., if Miyamoto composed the music for the original Famicom/NES "Super Mario" on a small electronic keyboard but did not do so for "Donkey Kong", then someone can move the information to the appropriate spot in the discussion of "Super Mario Bros."Andrewjnyc 18:04, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
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