Mini Bio (1) Shigeru Miyamato has been helping create games for Nintendo since 1981. In the late 1970s Nintendo was going bankrupt. Myamato then made two characters, Donkey Kong and Mario (then called Jumpman), for the game Donkey Kong (1981). He has been the supervisor of many games, like the Mario and Zelda games.

Shigeru Miyamoto is a famous Japanese video game designer and producer. He is considered as one of the pioneers of the video game industry, and often regarded as the “father of modern video gaming”. His extremely successful career spanning over four decades started in 1977 when he joined Nintendo as an artist.

Shigeru Miyamoto was born November 16th 1952 in Sonobe, Kyoto Japan. Shigeru Miyamoto joined Nintendo in 1977, when the company was beginning its foray into video games and started to abandon the playing cards. Shigeru Miyamoto is a game director, game producer, character artist, game designer and an EAD general manager.

Biography - Shigeru miyamoto. Childhood. Shigeru Miyamoto was born November 16, 1952 (he is currently 62) in Sonobe, Japan. He started making his own toys out of wood string and hay. His parents made modest means and were hardly poor. He grew up in the town Sonobe an agricultural and rural town in Japan.

Shigeru Miyamoto was mentor to the Pokemon creator Satoyshi Tajiri. Miyamoto was the first person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. The French minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres made Miyamoto a Chevalier (Knight) of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.