Miyamoto To Be Inducted Into BAFTA Fellowship
The legendary games designer and creator of Mario Bros, Shigeru Miyamoto, will receive the Fellowship at the 2010 British Academy Video Games Awards. Now the General Manager of Nintendo Entertainment, Miyamoto is the most well known/celebrated games industry figure around the world and is often referred to as “the father of modern video games”. We just call him Shigsy though, has much better ring to it. His design portfolio includes such classic titles as Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda and, more recently the DS hit, Nintendogs. To sum up, he is Mr Nintendo.
On being invited to receive the Fellowship, Miyamoto had this to say:
“I am very grateful to be able to receive such an honourable award from the British Academy. Our video games cannot be created by one person; since Donkey Kong until the most recent New Super Mario Bros. Wii, I have been working closely with a number of friends for three decades in order to develop fun and enjoyable games. I would like to receive this honourable award on behalf of all of these dependable colleagues.”
Woo! GO SHIGSY! The British Academy Video Games Awards will take place on Friday 19th March and will be streamed live at www.bafta.org.
