Masayuki Kato, the founder of Nihon Falcom, died at the age of 78 on Sunday, December 15, 2024. The cause of death is not yet known. Kato founded Ys and Legend of Heroes developer in 1981 at the age of 34, and his games continued to build the foundation of the action RPG genre. He ...
Image: Nintendo Life / Damien McFerran Over the holidays we’re republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, frivolity, retro expertise, gaming ...
The present and the future of the video game industry cannot be understood without the past, those years in which everything was experimentation, there was nothing settled and you had to squeeze your brain more than ever. In this field few stood out more than Masayuki Uemura. The former Nintendo engineer passed away on December ...
Image: Nintendo Life / Sayem Ahmed It is being reported that NES and SNES lead architect Masayuki Uemura has passed away 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 ...
© Nintendo Life There is no denying that the NES – or Famicom as it is known in its native Japan – is one of the most important pieces of video game hardware ever made. Not only did it transform Nintendo from a foreign player into an industry leader, it laid the foundations for a ...
