Shigeru Miyamoto profiled in the New Yorker

The New Yorker’s Nick Paumgarten goes long on Nintendo’s resident genius, Shigeru Miyamoto, designer of many of Nintendo’s top games.

In his games, Miyamoto has always tried to re-create his childhood wonderment, if not always the actual experiences that gave rise to it, since the experiences themselves may be harder to come by in a paved and partitioned world. “I can still recall the kind of sensation I had when I was in a small river, and I was searching with my hands beneath a rock, and something hit my finger, and I noticed it was a fish,” he told me one day. “That’s something that I just can’t express in words. It’s such an unusual situation. I wish that children nowadays could have similar experiences, but it’s not very easy.”

• Nick Paumgarten
• Nintendo
• Shigeru Miyamoto
• video games