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.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

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.

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 think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

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

I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.