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Miyamoto, Iwata, & Itoi on lunch hangouts, 2011.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 58. Producer and co-director of the first Zelda and Super Mario games. - Satoru Iwata, age 51. President of Nintendo. - Shigesato Itoi, age 62. Creator of Earthbound. - Takashi Tezuka, age 50. Co-director of the first Zelda and Super Mario games. - Toshihiko Nakago, age 54. Programmer for the first Zelda and Super Mario games. QUOTE: Miyamoto: You stock up a lot of topics for "Iwata Asks" at lunchtime, right? Iwata: Yeah. Miyamoto-san has lunch with the same people almost every day—Takashi Tezuka-san and Toshihiko Nakago-san. It's been that way for quite a while. Itoi: Longer than our wives. Iwata: Yes, that's how long we've been eating together! [laughs] Miyamoto: It's true! [laughs] Iwata: About once a week, I join them and listen in. If I think something sounds interesting, I remember it and use it in "Iwata Asks.”
May 10, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Iwata on the time he gave programming advice to Nakago, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Satoru Iwata, age 49. Programmer on Balloon Fight, President of Nintendo. - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer on Balloon Fight, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Director & Producer of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: Iwata: HAL Laboratory worked on the [Famicom] version of Balloon Fight while… Nakago: We worked on the arcade version. … We wondered why the player's movements were smoother on the home version and asked Iwata-san for advice. Iwata: That's when I told Nakago-san everything I knew. One thing I recommended was that instead of calculating the character's position using integers, they should also calculate it using decimal points, thereby doubling the precision. In this way, calculating gravity, buoyancy, acceleration and deceleration all become more precise and the movements look smoother. … Nakago: … I remember Miyamoto-san complaining: “Why do you have to go to another company to find this stuff out?” [laughs]
January 18, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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Nakago on the first time he met Miyamoto, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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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.”
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Iwata on Nakago & Tezuka's relationship with Miyamoto , 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 48. Assistant Director of Super Mario Bros., co-director of The Legend of Zelda. - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer for Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Director & Producer of of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: "Iwata: Now the two of you have lunch with Miyamoto-san on a more or less daily basis. I sometimes join you, which means that we've spent a lot of time together. But this is the first time we've ever spoken in this kind of formal setting. … You know, I always got the sense that you were suspicious that there was some kind of ulterior motive behind these interviews. [laughs] Tezuka: Well, I always thought it would be better to stay out of them. [laughs] Iwata: [laughs] Well, I asked you to join me for this interview because I felt that it was impossible to discuss the history of Mario without reference to the triangle formed by Miyamoto-san, Tezuka-san and Nakago-san."
February 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Iwata on Kirby and Miyamoto's long-held goal of multiplayer Mario, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Satoru Iwata, age 49. Producer for Kirby Super Star. President of Nintendo. - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer of The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros., and other Zelda titles. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Producer for Kirby Super Star, Creator of Zelda and Mario. QUOTE: "Iwata: [Multiplayer] is one of the ideas that he returns to with every Mario game. It's a fair while ago now, but I once went to see Miyamoto-san to propose an idea for [Kirby Super Star (1996)]. He then set me a task to work on, saying: ‘We keep trying it every time with Mario but just can't seem to pull it off. Why don't we try having a multiplayer mode in Kirby?’ Nakago: So even though you'd gone to propose an idea to him, Miyamoto-san actually turned the tables and proposed one to you? [laughs] Iwata: That's right. It was this, which led to the director on Kirby, Sakurai-san, to come up with the idea of having a two-player helper system and including it in the game."
January 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Nakago on Miyamoto's direction for the length of Super Mario Bros. levels, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer for Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. - Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Producer & Director of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: "Nakago: That's right. Miyamoto-san said to me right at the start [of Super Mario Bros.’ development]: ‘Make it so that a single level lasts about one minute.’ But with a regular game, you could run across a single screen in about one second. Iwata: If it takes a second to run across the screen, and you want it to last for a minute, you're going to need sixty screens. Nakago: That's why I asked: ‘Are we really going to make this many screens?’ Miyamoto-san responded by saying: ‘We're going to have all sorts of things going on in between, so twenty screens should be enough for a single level.’ At that time, I couldn't grasp what Miyamoto-san meant. "
December 5, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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Iwata on the time he gave programming advice to Nakago , 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Satoru Iwata, age 49. Programmer on Balloon Fight, President of Nintendo.. - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer on Balloon Fight, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Director & Producer of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: "Iwata: HAL Laboratory worked on the [Famicom] version of Balloon Fight while… Nakago: We worked on the arcade version. … We wondered why the player's movements were smoother on the home version and asked Iwata-san for advice. Iwata: That's when I told Nakago-san everything I knew. One thing I recommended was that instead of calculating the character's position using integers, they should also calculate it using decimal points, thereby doubling the precision. In this way, calculating gravity, buoyancy, acceleration and deceleration all become more precise and the movements look smoother. … Nakago: … I remember Miyamoto-san complaining: ‘Why do you have to go to another company to find this stuff out
July 18, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Nakago on a vivid memory from Super Mario Bros.' development, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer for Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. - Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Producer and Director of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: "Nakago: I can clearly remember right at the start of the development process [for Super Mario Bros.] when the blue sky appeared on the screen. Iwata: Games at that point almost always had black backgrounds, didn't they? Nakago: That's right. At that time, there was nothing displayed on the screen aside from the blue sky with white clouds and the ground but that image really jumped out of the screen and I thought: ‘This is incredible!’ … I'd never seen anything like it. When I saw that image, it was already late in the evening but I rang Miyamoto-san straight away, telling him: ‘We've come up with something amazing!’ [laughs]"
July 8, 2024 at 1:48 AM