We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game.

Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

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

As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing.