The lead engineer behind the Nintendo Entertainment System and its successor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Masayuki Uemura, has died. First reported by Polygon, this news comes by way of the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University, which announced today that the legendary designer died on December 6. He was 78 years old. Japan Media Arts Festival Archive Masayuki Uemura Uemura began working for Nintendo in 1972, where he quickly got to work prototyping light-gun...
The lead engineer behind the Nintendo Entertainment System and its successor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Masayuki Uemura, has died. First reported by Polygon, this news comes by way of the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University, which announced today that the legendary designer died on December 6. He was 78 years old. Japan Media Arts Festival Archive Masayuki Uemura Uemura began working for Nintendo in 1972, where he quickly got to work prototyping light-gun...
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