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Season 1 Episode 14: Shigeru Miyamoto: The Father of Modern Video Games

Game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has set the gold standard for gaming. If you play a fair amount of home video games, one thing you'll notice is that they all have a certain general form. Just like movies all have a repeated basic structure that has been crafted over the last 80 years, video games also have a conventional mold that parallels audience expectation. And the guy who really defined that structure—the D.W. Griffith; the Orsen Wells of video games, so to speak—was Shigeru Miyamoto.

Genre:

Documentary, Comedy

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

22

Cast:

T.J. Allard, Dan Ackerman, Libe Goad

Quality:

HD

Duration:

8 min

First Air:

2007

Rating:

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