The New Yorker has profiled acclaimed Japanese Nintendo video game creator Shigeru Miyamoto (Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda) in this week's World Changers Issue (right up there with virus chasers, the Peace Corps and Julian Assange).
"Miyamoto has told variations on the cave story a few times over the years, in order to emphasize the extent to which he was surrounded by nature, as a child, and also to claim his youthful explorations as a source of his aptitude and enthusiasm for inventing and designing video games. The cave has become a misty but indispensable part of his legend, to Miyamoto what the cherry tree was to George Washington, or what LSD is to Steve Jobs..... The cave, certainly, is an occasion for easy irony: the man who has perhaps done more than any other person to entice generations of children to spend their playtime indoors, in front of a video screen, happened to develop his peculiar talent while playing outdoors, at whatever amusements or mischief he could muster."
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