Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario, found himself repeating the same presentation for new Nintendo staff every year. To solve this, a new museum in Kyoto will showcase over a century of the company's history, from its humble beginnings with hanafuda cards to its modern gaming success.
The inspiration for Nintendo ’s new museum came, at least in part, from an ongoing irritation for Shigeru Miyamoto . At a certain point every year, the Super Mario creator does a presentation for the hundred or so new staff that have joined the company. It’s an attempt to explain the core of what makes Nintendo a creative force. “I talk for two hours,” Miyamoto said during a roundtable interview ahead of the museum’s opening. “And after 20 years, I don’t want to do it anymore.
As someone who has played Nintendo games since the NES, there were plenty of things I had never heard of, particularly when it comes to the company’s earliest days. Even Miyamoto learned some things. He joined the company in 1977 but had never seen a Copilas — a line of printers Nintendo made during the ’70s — in the flesh. “Those were something that I had only heard about,” he says. I also appreciate that the company doesn’t skip over its failures.
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