![PEOPLE:
- Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Main Programmer on Excitebike, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda.
- Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo.
- Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Director of Excitebike, Producer & Director of Super Mario Bros. & The Legend of Zelda.
QUOTE:
Iwata: So your job was to port arcade games like Donkey Kong over to the Famicom?
Nakago: That's right. Then around the time that job was coming to an end, someone I didn't know came up behind me and said: “You're Nakago-san, right?” And that turned out to be Miyamoto-san.
Iwata: So even though you'd ported Donkey Kong across to the NES, you didn't know Miyamoto-san? [laughs]
Nakago: I honestly didn't know anything about him! [laughs] At that time, I didn't even know that anyone by name of Miyamoto was working for the company. Then he came up to me and said: “We're going to be working on Excitebike together.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreifoaqg2ovpw4dcubinu4zqk5p3p2gdoptzs5clovrp7gtjdnbzh6a)
PEOPLE: - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Main Programmer on Excitebike, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda. - Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Director of Excitebike, Producer & Director of Super Mario Bros. & The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: Iwata: So your job was to port arcade games like Donkey Kong over to the Famicom? Nakago: That's right. Then around the time that job was coming to an end, someone I didn't know came up behind me and said: “You're Nakago-san, right?” And that turned out to be Miyamoto-san. Iwata: So even though you'd ported Donkey Kong across to the NES, you didn't know Miyamoto-san? [laughs] Nakago: I honestly didn't know anything about him! [laughs] At that time, I didn't even know that anyone by name of Miyamoto was working for the company. Then he came up to me and said: “We're going to be working on Excitebike together.”
Nakago on the first time he met Miyamoto, 2009.
Source: Iwata Asks
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![PEOPLE:
- Masanobu Endo, age 32. Creator of influential games Xevious & Tower of Druaga.
- Shigeru Miyamoto, age 33. Producer & Director of the upcoming Legend of Zelda (1986), Director of Excitebike.
QUOTE:
"Endo: I love the way you go flying when you pitch forward off the bike [in Excitebike].
Miyamoto: That little touch came from my experiences skiing. I like to ski.
Endo: When you pursue a lot of different hobbies, you can feel things you wouldn't experience in normal everyday life. You know what I mean? I think that's somehow connected to the process of making games.
Miyamoto: Yeah. When I use my head in a new way, it stimulates my creativity."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreidqqwmcl4pj5z3my463b276u5xsor5gazpxrdrh4qv5h3quvbchju)