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

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.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.

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.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.