Nintendo Video Game Designer Shigeru Miyamoto (STEM Trailblazer Bios)

Nintendo Video Game Designer Shigeru Miyamoto (STEM Trailblazer Bios)

Do you play video games? If you do, you've probably played a game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto pioneered a new kind of game based on story and characters, rather than competition with other players. As a child, Miyamoto was fascinated by animated movies. He drew his own cartoons and designed children's toys. In college, Miyamoto studied art and design. He was hired as an artist at Nintendo, a toy company that was just starting to make video games. At Nintendo, Miyamoto designed classic games such as Donkey Kong and Mario Bros . The follow-up Super Mario Bros . became the best-selling video game of its time. Today, Miyamoto still makes popular games for Nintendo, and fans can't wait to see what he comes up with next. "These palatable biographies . . . might inspire pride in [students'] own developing STEM skills. . . . The bright, clean format and accessible tone make these entry biographies great for classrooms and libraries."― School Library Journal Kari Cornell is a freelance writer and editor who lives in South Minneapolis with her husband and two young boys. When she's not working or spending time with her family, she loves to cook, tinker in the garden, knit, or run. She feels fortunate that she's been able to combine many of the activities she likes to do in her free time with her day job. Cornell is the author of several cookbooks for children, including Cooking the Turkish Way and Cooking the Indonesian Way . She is the co-author of Growing with Purpose: Forty Years of Seward Community Cooperative