I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.

Entertainment companies always have to stay on the edge of trying to catch that certain thing that will grab people's attention. And that thing is always changing. Nintendo has been doing this for a long, long time. Originally, we weren't even a video game company, but we were still an entertainment company. So I can't say what that next thing is, but I can say, at Nintendo we're trying to create new ways to play.