The brain behind Super Mario game, Shigeru Miyamoto goes into film production

If you have not heard of or played Super Mario game before, then it is either you are from another planet or that you are so nerdy while growing up as a kid and that you cannot even interact with your peers.

And that is how best I can describe the popularity of the Super Mario Bros game.

Just to speak further on what you already know; Super Mario is a video game developed in the 80’s by the world largest video game company in revenue, Nintendo.

In Super Mario single player mode, the player controls the lead character Mario, while in the dual player mode, the second player controls Mario’s brother Luigi as he travels through Mushroom realm in order to rescue Princess Toadstool from antagonist Bowser.

Back then and even till this very moment, every Tom, Dick and Harry love the Super Mario game, both kids and adult play Super Mario with great enthusiasm on different platforms, and the game popularity made Super Mario synonymous to Nintendo game.

Now, who is the brain behind Super Mario and what is his current project like?

Meet Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who created the ever exhilarating Super Mario game. The Japanese Miyamoto has been in the forefront of world biggest video game hits over the past 30 years, and today he is adding film production to his series of ingenuity.

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Though he still maintains the stand that his love for video game, which has brought him fame over the years remains evergreen and undented.

His latest project PIKIMI is a 3D short animation film based on Nintendo game characters, was at the weekend launched in the Tokyo International Film Festival.

The Super Mario game developer said that he has always picture the possibility of him making movies given the technological advances, but that making game still remained his number one career choice.

Film making has just become additional to Shigeru Miyamoto game career and we want to say more feathers to his cap as he continues to thrill the entertainment world with his expertise.