By Emma Boyle
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has been reminiscing about his time spent developing Donkey Kong in a recent interview posted to Nintendo’s Japanese website.
In the interview, translated in full by Wired‘s Chris Kohler, Miyamoto reaches back 35 years and shares secrets from the development of Donkey Kong and Mario that he hasn’t mentioned publicly before now.
One of these secrets is that he used to mull over ideas for games, including Donkey Kong, while in Nintendo’s company bath.
Thinking time
Miyamoto told the interviewer: “There was a water boiler that was used to make the hanafuda (traditional Japanese playing cards that Nintendo manufactures), and the water from this boiler was also used for a bathtub… at night when nobody was around, you could hang out there for a long time. It totally saved me. It was really effective at letting me put my ideas in order.”
Actually, that secret is really two-fold since it’s news to us that Nintendo has a company bath, never mind that Miyamoto used to use it as his thinking space.
You could hardly blame Miyamoto for needing the time to take a long bath, though, since he also reveals in the interview that he created Donkey Kong under …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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