Random Nintendo Trivia With Shigeru Miyamoto

Logan Westbrook

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Random Nintendo Trivia With Shigeru Miyamoto



Ever wondered what Kirby was originally going to be called, or what Nintendo of America thought about the name Wii? Well, now you can find out.

Speaking at the Digital Contents Expo, the same place the VR Buggy [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/95700-Japanese-Engineers-Create-Virtual-Reality-Buggy] came from, Shigeru Miyamoto delivered a keynote speech that let us in to a load of interesting Nintendo trivia.

Amongst the 'revelations' were such gems as the fact that Kirby's original name was "Tinkle Popo" or that - surprise, surprise - Nintendo America and Nintendo Europe weren't all that keen on the name Wii. All the same, it's interesting to hear him say that the GameCube controller was a "little failure", or how Nintendo initially opposed the creation of Legend of Zelda.

You can read it all for yourself here [http://twitter.com/digi_sen], provided you can read Japanese that is.

Source: WiiNintendo [http://www.wiinintendo.net/2009/10/23/covering-shigeru-miyamoto-keynote-at-digital-contents-expo/]


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Arkhangelsk

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Gamecube controller? Failure? It had my favourite design along with the Super Nintendo. At least the small ones.
 

LimeJester

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You guys are stuck on the controller thing? Tinkle Popo Really? Really?! That's just as bag as Wii... and sounds just as gross.
 

MetaKnight19

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Thats a new fact about Kirby for me. The only interesting thing I know about Kirby is that he was named after a japanese vacuum cleaner. Also the GameCube controller rocks.
 

Simalacrum

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nilcypher said:
provided you can read Japanese that is.
HELL YES I CAN!

woop XD

edit: huh... according to the article, Miyamoto wanted to be a manga-author when he was younger.
 

NotPigeon

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MetaKnight19 said:
The only interesting thing I know about Kirby is that he was named after a japanese vacuum cleaner.
No, he was clearly named after the vacuum cleaner from The Brave Little Toaster


I don't know if that's anachronistic or not and I don't care.

Also, I honestly liked the GameCube controller.
 

Kuchinawa212

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wow.
Also I remember when G4 did a interview with him and said he got a lot of LoZ ideas from the caves he explored as a kid. That was back when G4 was good
 

Swaki

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i sorta understand being against legend of zelda, the hero in the game is link, link does all the work, we relate to link, we love link and they choose to name the game after the frozen girl who does nothing, any way im going to play the peach brothers 2 now.