Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

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.

Programming is all about numbers.

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