Masayuki Uemura, creator of popular game consoles, dies at 78

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Rest in peace, Mr. Uemura. Thank you for introducing us to the world of video games. Read:

After joining Nintendo Co. in 1971, Uemura was in charge of developing the NES and its successor the SNES. Both consoles, known in Japan as "Famicom," an abbreviation of family computer, became huge hits with combined sales of 100 million units worldwide.The cause of Uemura's death on Monday was not released.

A native of Tokyo and an electronic engineering graduate of the Chiba Institute of Technology, Uemura started teaching at the Kyoto university in 2004, according to the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies. Famicom hit the Japanese market in 1983 as Nintendo's first cartridge-based console. It enabled users to play an expanding array of video games by inserting cassettes. The Super Famicom was released in Japan in 1990.

 

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