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 think what a lot of people see as unique is using different technology or different techniques [to make games], but I feel like, as long as you have a core that's unlike others, that's what 'unique' is.

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

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

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

When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.

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.