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

When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members.

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

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.

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.

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.