Mario Creator on Bespoke Console Screen Dreams

In the latest interview twist to surface from Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, the famed developer makes an interesting comment on how he sees gaming in the future.

“It's convenient to make games that are played on TVs,” Miyamoto told Business Week. “But I always wanted to have a custom-sized screen that wasn't the typical four-cornered cathode-ray-tube TV. I've always thought that games would eventually break free of the confines of a TV screen to fill an entire room. But I would rather not say anything more about that.”

Which is a great shame, as we’d very much like to hear a lot more about the Nintendo console that somehow fills an entire room. Revolution 2. You heard it here first.

Miyamoto also let slip his secret drug shame, a feature of his life we always suspected. When talking about the origins of Super Mario Bros., he said, “It started with a simple idea. I thought: "I wonder what it would be like to have a character that bounces around. And the background should be a clear, blue sky." I took that idea to a programmer, and we started working on it. Mario ended up being too big, so we shrank him. Then we thought, "What if he can grow and shrink? How would he do that? It would have to be a magic mushroom! Where would a mushroom grow? In a forest." We thought of giving Mario a girlfriend, and then we started talking about Alice in Wonderland.”

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