'Super Nintendo World celebrates nearly four decades of games and characters. The theme park opened Friday. 🎢
got to tour the park early and interview the man who made it possible: Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, designer and creator of the “Mario,” “Donkey Kong” and “Zelda” franchises.
“When we're talking about theme parks, it really is being able to experience the theme park through your whole body through it being an immersive experience,” said Miyamoto, speaking through an interpreter. “The kind of added key element into all of this is the interactivity, both as a game and from theme parks. So in that sense, I think our collaboration went very smoothly.
“That is a very important concept as we're making games. The core mechanism that goes into the game is actually very simple and pure. And really after that, it's about understanding what the player would want. I feel like really distilling it down to that helps then the player use their imagination to kind of have their play experience even grow even more.
“When it comes down to interactivity and games, it's really the fact that pushing down a stick on a controller makes the character on screen move. That kind of direct interaction between your action and the action that you're seeing is what makes games fun. And so we say Super Mario, but it's really the fact that going pushing left makes Mario go left, pushing right makes Mario go right.
“For example, in the history of Nintendo, for every kind of new hardware we put out, there's been at least one Mario game that we put out. And in that same vein, you know, this new park and the AR technology that’s used in this park, really is, I think, yet another proper evolution that Mario has gone through. And I hope that this becomes even more available and that he's able to hang out in more people's hearts.
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