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Mario and Zelda My 25-year love affair   by Liba456

A half-century ago, a young boy named Shigeru Miyamoto saw a hole in the ground near his home in the Japanese village of Sonobe. The next day, he returned with a lantern, made his way into the hole and discovered a small cavern.
“He could see that passageways led to other chambers,” a profile of Miyamoto in the New Yorker noted last year. “Over the summer, he kept returning to the cave to marvel at the dance of the shadows on the walls.”
Within that cave was something far more significant: Inspiration that led, much later, to Miyamoto becoming one of the world’s greatest video game designers and father of two of the most beloved game series on the planet: Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda.
Mario, the character, was created by Miyamoto at Nintendo for 1981â

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