If there is an iconic person on Nintendo that is Shigeru Miyamoto who has been named a person of cultural merit in Japan and it is very, very clear that the Great N could challenge Disney. So, when he saw that in Donkey Kong 64 there were a real shotgun that caused him such horror that he decided to create the already famous coconut shotgun of the franchise.
As a good creative, Miyamoto leaves no detail loose in their titles, so a real, realistic shotgun would have no place in a world like Donkey Kong 64. In this way, Miyamoto not only managed to make more sense of the presence of the weapon in the game, but also could give that harmless touch nintendero which is already a teacher.
LRT: Miyamoto reacts in horror to the placeholder realistic shotgun pic.twitter.com/x0oym0I9oi
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We give thanks to @SMWikiOfficial on Twitter by give us this interesting information and that demonstrates, once again, that the figure of Miyamoto is not at all overrated, but that it is that of a genius and figure