Shigeru Miyamoto talks Mario games which impressed him the most ~ Amazing News 2020

Shigeru Miyamoto talks Mario games which impressed him the most

By Sickr on July 18, 2026

The legendary video game developer Shigeru Miyamoto has talked with Japanese magazine Casa Brutus about the Mario games that have impressed him most and left a lasting impression on him. The two games are Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo and Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64. He said that during development of Super Mario World he felt like he had mastered 2D platforming and that Super Mario 64 reminded him of his childhood, during which he wanted to be a puppet master, and that the visuals reminded him of puppet theatre. Here’s what he had to say:

“I have a deep emotional connection to all of my works. By the completion of Super Mario World, I felt that I’d, to a degree, mastered the two-dimensional Mario world. But then, with Super Mario 64 going 3D, I was reminded of my childhood. Going back even further than my manga-drawing junior high school days, in grade school I loved the NHK puppet shows, such as ‘Chirorin Village and the Walnut Tree’ and ‘Hyokkori Hyotan Island’, and I thought I wanted to become a puppet maker. I’d construct these ‘monster dioramas’ and shoot them with my camera. Creating Super Mario 64 felt like a return to that time. Two-dimensional Mario felt like drawing manga, while 3D brought me back to puppet theater… It’s somehow all connected, you know?”