Miyamoto Getting Lifetime Achievement Award

February 16th, 2007 Posted in Articles, Business, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PC, Wii

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Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto will receive a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Game Developer Conference. As you probably know, Miyamoto created Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, and other famous Nintendo characters. He’s been called the “Spielberg of videogames”, and has previoously received numerous awards for his achievements.

Other awards will also be given; Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov will receive the “First Penguin Award”, for “diving headfirst into unknown territory” with Tetris, game composer George Sanger will receive the Community Contribution Award, for his work on music and sound design, and finally, Indie game advocate Greg Costikyan will receive the Maverick Award for his work and promotion of indie games and developers.

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4 Responses to “Miyamoto Getting Lifetime Achievement Award”

  1. Quartecks Says:

    February 16th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    Was it? From who?



  2. Quick Clicks 02.16.2007 » ScreenHead Says:

    February 16th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    [...] Spielberg of video games to get lifetime achievement [...]



  3. Zac Says:

    February 17th, 2007 at 1:10 am

    Tetris truly is a great game.



  4. ObiKKa Says:

    July 22nd, 2007 at 12:51 am

    Warren Spector is clearly the “Spielberg of video games”. Not Miyamoto. He’s created both Ultima Underworld games, I think, System Shock, Thief games, & the Deus Ex games.



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