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Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Has Passed Away

“I think we have accomplished all the things we could accomplish with console games”.

It has been revealed that NES and SNES lead architect Masayuki Uemura passed away on December 6th at the age of 78.

The Famicom – the system that would become the NES in the west – was the brainchild of Uemura, who joined Nintendo as an engineer from Sharp in 1972 at a time when it was tentatively exploring the possibilities of electronic entertainment. One of his first roles was to help with Nintendo’s range of location-based light-gun games.

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