Shiggy will receive the Fellowship at this year’s GAME British Academy Video Games Awards.
The guy who created Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong should get as many awards as possible, as far as I'm concerned. BAFTA's Fellowship is the "highest accolade the Academy can bestow on an individual for their creative work." Previous winners include Hitchcock and Kubrick. Now Nintendo's General Manager of Entertainment, Shigeru Miyamoto, will officially join their ranks at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards, which will take place on the 19th of March.
Miyamoto on the award:
I am very grateful to be able to receive such an honourable award from the British Academy. Our video games cannot be created by one person; since Donkey Kong until the most recent New Super Mario Bros. Wii, I have been working closely with a number of friends for three decades in order to develop fun and enjoyable games. I would like to receive this honourable award on behalf of all of these dependable colleagues.
Congrats, Miyamoto. I dig your games. Even Nintendogs!
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9:00 AM on 02.24.2010
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Unlike any of the nominees for the other GAME BAFTA award... I think the only 2 contenders that should have a chance are Batman: AA or Uncharted 2 (from what I've heard people say of them), but knowing most gamers MW2 will win.
That’s because it's unlikely for people like Shigeru to actually get the same position he has in this day and age. He even said it him self.
Kudos Miyamoto! I don't even want to know what the video game industry would look like without you.
While that's true, it's also down to originality - Shigsy pulled his ideas from his life, rather than from competitors, which is what developers tend to do these days.
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