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Miyamoto on whether Mario is a real doctor, 2015.

Source: Game Informer

https://www.hyruleinterviews.com/Mario-s-Creators-Answer-Burning-Questions-About-The-Series-f7e40d3280344b829fc8d3c9c8b36180?source=copy_link

PEOPLE:

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 62. Creator of Zelda & Mario.

QUOTE: Q: Mario has been a boxing referee, a doctor, an Olympian, and a carpenter. Are all these official careers in Mario lore? If he has a medical degree, why does he continue his plumbing business?

Miyamoto: There's really only one rule in terms of the things that Mario does. Generally, it's that he's more on the blue-collar side. He's hard-working, and certainly much more physical in nature. So, I think that a doctor is sort of an unexpected and perhaps unbelievable role for Mario. Perhaps the Dr. Mario you're thinking of was maybe, in some way, not necessarily legitimate.

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Tezuka on how to make levels feel special when there so many, 2015.

Source: Polygon

PEOPLE:

Takashi Tezuka, age 54. Co-Creator of the Zelda series. Producer or director of 17+ Super Mario Bros. games.

QUOTE: Tezuka: In Mario games, each one has 60 to 80 courses, and each course needs to have its own unique defining element. If you build too many elements into every course, they start to feel the same. That's something you need to be careful of. To me, the real trick is limiting [the number of] course objects. That's what makes it really special.

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Miyamoto on why he thinks it's more fun to have to restart levels after failure, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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#MiyamotoQuote, #IwataQuote

https://www.notion.so/309b8c7728614e5c85f3faa04f2c9316

PEOPLE:

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Creator of Zelda & Mario.

Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo.

QUOTE: Miyamoto: Even if you slip up just before clearing the castle [in a Mario game], you'll be sent right back to the starting point. Maybe this is all due to my nasty streak! [laughs] But I think playing at that level of intensity is actually the most enjoyable way to play.

Iwata: You think it's more fun to have to play from the start of the level again?

Miyamoto: With platform games, only playing the difficult parts can really take it out of you. It feels good to play parts that you can breeze through as well. …

Iwata: That's why rather than having lots of checkpoints where you can save your position, it's better to play through the easy part again.

Miyamoto: Right. That's more pleasurable for the player. 

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Iwata on Kirby and Miyamoto's long-held goal of multiplayer Mario, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

https://www.notion.so/01d01475fc4749f29efa7a7dcd9610e1

PEOPLE:

Satoru Iwata, age 49. Producer for Kirby Super Star. President of Nintendo.

Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer of The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros., and other Zelda titles.

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Producer for Kirby Super Star, Creator of Zelda and Mario.

QUOTE: "Iwata: [Multiplayer] is one of the ideas that he returns to with every Mario game. It's a fair while ago now, but I once went to see Miyamoto-san to propose an idea for [Kirby Super Star (1996)]. He then set me a task to work on, saying: ‘We keep trying it every time with Mario but just can't seem to pull it off. Why don't we try having a multiplayer mode in Kirby?’

Nakago: So even though you'd gone to propose an idea to him, Miyamoto-san actually turned the tables and proposed one to you? [laughs]

Iwata: That's right. It was this, which led to the director on Kirby, Sakurai-san, to come up with the idea of having a two-player helper system and including it in the game."