Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

I could make Halo. It’s not that I couldn’t design that game. It’s just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time.

Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!

Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

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