I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time

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

There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

For a long time at Nintendo we didn't focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features. But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the Internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities.