Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.

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.

Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

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