1. Shigesato Itoi is a Japanese copywriter, essayist, lyricist, game designer, and actor.
20 Facts About Shigesato Itoi
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Shigesato Itoi is best known outside Japan for his work on Nintendo's Mother series of games, as well as his self-titled bass fishing video game.
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Later Shigesato Itoi branched into writing essays, lyrics, and designing video games.
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Shigesato Itoi is best known outside of Japan for Nintendo's EarthBound, released in 1994 in Japan and in 1995 in North America.
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In 1997, Shigesato Itoi began using the Internet and bought his first Macintosh.
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Shigesato Itoi has co-written several books modeled on these interviews, in which he has a series of long conversations with, for example, an expert on neurology Yuji Ikegaya, about how to live as a human being in the world.
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Shigesato Itoi has voiced Satsuki's father, Tatsuo Kusakabe, in the original Japanese version of the 1988 Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro.
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Shigesato Itoi made his live-action acting debut in 2010, when he played the role of a professor in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood.
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Shigesato Itoi established the company Ape, Inc as a venue for external developers to help make games for Nintendo.
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Shigesato Itoi initially envisioned Mother 3 as a highly ambitious title for the ill-fated Nintendo 64DD peripheral which would have transitioned the series into 3D graphics and featured elaborate cinematic cutscenes; however this version of the game never came to fruition due to the failure of the 64DD, and Mother 3 was instead reimagined as a 2D title for Game Boy Advance closer in scope to the first two titles, with Itoi credited as the writer of the story.
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Shigesato Itoi has said that he would not be involved in a fourth title of the series.
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Shigesato Itoi's works have had an impact on other games and other media, including Undertale, and others.
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Shigesato Itoi worked with Nintendo to design video game-themed haramaki.
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Shigesato Itoi is an avid Monopoly player and is President of the Japan Monopoly Association.
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Shigesato Itoi competed in the 1992 Monopoly World Championships and placed eighth.
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Shigesato Itoi launched a photo creation tool called "Dokonoko", which is designed specifically to be used with pets.
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Shigesato Itoi was born on November 10,1948, and raised in Maebashi, Gunma.
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Shigesato Itoi was a heavy smoker until he quit in 2002.
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Shigesato Itoi has been married to actress Kanako Higuchi since 1993.
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The protagonist of the game, Ninten, has asthma, which was one of the first aspects of his character Shigesato Itoi came up with.