The Museum
Human Stories
Behind every console and cartridge, a person made a decision. These are the stories of those decisions — written not as biography, but as the life lessons that still travel forward.
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The Man Who Asked What He'd Built
Masayuki Uemura — The engineer who designed the Famicom.
July 15, 1983 — a grey box, ¥14,800
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The Programmer Who Became President
Satoru Iwata — The man who never stopped being a programmer, even when his business card said president.
December 1992 — Yamanashi, Japan
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The Cave and the Garden
Shigeru Miyamoto — The boy who spent a summer inside a cave, and grew up to put that feeling into a game.
Summer, circa 1961 — Sonobe, Kyoto
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The Final Wager
Hironobu Sakaguchi — The man who named his last hope 'Final Fantasy' — and then had to keep making it.
December 18, 1987 — Tokyo
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Tajiri's Six-Year Bet
Satoshi Tajiri — The man who turned his childhood bug-hunting into Pokémon.
February 27, 1996 — Tokyo
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Yamauchi at Twenty-One
Hiroshi Yamauchi — The 21-year-old who took over Nintendo and ran it for 53 years.
April 25, 1949 — Kyoto
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Yokoi's Last Morning
Gunpei Yokoi — The Nintendo engineer who designed the Game Boy.
October 4, 1997 — Hokuriku Expressway, Ishikawa Prefecture