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Sep. 1, 2024Star Fox’s Takaya Imamura gushed over his time working with the Super Mario maker
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Former Nintendo designer Takaya Imamura had a pretty legendary run at the publisher, contributing to the likes of Star Fox and F-Zero over the course of 32 years, but one of his most proud achievements is getting to work under Shigeru Miyamoto.
Miyamoto’s largely credited with creating never-ending, aways popular series such as Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda, as well as contributing to countless other Nintendo projects that remain beloved. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that Imamura thinks so fondly of their work together.
Elsewhere, the legendary designer behind Star Fox and F-Zero nearly worked on Konami, before his mum encouraged him to say yes to Nintendo.
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