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.

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

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

Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

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

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

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