The video game world is in mourning by death at 78 years of the Japanese engineer Masayuki Uemura, who will be remembered for creating two of the consoles that at the time revolutionized the industry: the NES and the Super nintendo.
Uemura started working at Sharp selling batteries for various companies, including Nintendo, because it used them for its light guns. Gunpei Yokoi, creator of the Game boy, he took up this idea for the game that would give life to Duck Hunt And it was then that the company hired Masayuki in 1972.
This Japanese man, who studied computer science at the Chiba Institute of Technology, joined Nintendo and was soon placed in charge of the newly created research and development division, which had the important mission of create a video game console that could connect to television and that allowed to play classic arcade titles, such as Donkey kong.
Masayuki Uemura was curious from a young age and began to create toys to help his family, which had fled from Tokyo to Kyoto in the middle of World War II, for that reason he was entrusted with the creation of a home console and that is how he was born the dear Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), a 8-bit platform with interchangeable cartridges.
As early as 1988, Uemura began to design what would become the successor to NES: the Super famicon or Super Nintendo, as we remember so far, a system also with interchangeable cartridges but now in 16 bits. This was perhaps one of the most important consoles in the industry during the 90s, as it became popular alongside video games such as Super mario world, Super mario kart, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Street fighter, to name a few.
Not only consoles, he also created video games
Masayuki Uemura is not only the mastermind to whom we owe the NES and Super Nintendo, but also produced video games important in their time like Soccer, Baseball, Golf, Clu Clu Land and Ice Climber. The Japanese engineer retired from the industry in 2004, but continued as an advisor in Nintendo’s research department.
In addition, he also taught and was a researcher at the Ritsumekan University and he used to give lectures on videogames in various countries around the world, says the specialized media Vandal.
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