Shigeru Miyamoto

is a Japanese video game designer. He is the creator of the Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and F-Zero franchises for Nintendo game systems. He has also supervised many titles published by Nintendo on behalf of other developers, including Metroid Prime and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. Miyamoto is a world-renowned game designer, and is often called the "father of modern video gaming". Video games designed by him typically feature refined control-mechanics, intuitive gameplay, simple story lines, and imaginative worlds in which the players are encouraged to discover things for themselves. Employed by Nintendo as an artist in 1977, he was given the task of working on one of their first coin-operated arcade game. The resulting title was Radar Scope, which was not as big of a success in the United States as Nintendo had hoped. Miyamoto later reused the game's hardware and modded it into Donkey Kong which was a huge success as well as a turning point... full article at wikipedia