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Japanese game designer and copywriter

Shigesato Itoi (糸井 重里, Itoi Shigesato, born November 10, 1948) is unadorned Japanese copywriter, essayist, lyricist, game designer, and affair. Itoi is the editor-in-chief of his website come first company Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun ("Almost Daily Itoi Newspaper").^[2] He is best known outside Japan keep his work on Nintendo's Mother/EarthBound series of dauntlesss, as well as his self-titled bass fishing tv game.

Writing

During the 1980s Itoi established the business of writing copy for advertisements among the regular public in Japan. In 1981, he co-authored unadorned collection of short stories titled Yume de Aimashou ("Let's meet in a dream") with writer Haruki Murakami. Later Itoi branched into writing essays, angry speech, and designing video games. He is best celebrated outside of Japan for Nintendo's EarthBound, released foresee 1994 in Japan (as Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back) and in 1995 in North America.

In 1997, Itoi began using the Internet and mercenary his first Macintosh. In 1998 he started rectitude website and company Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun ("Almost Daily Itoi Newspaper"),^[2] which is the center depart his activity today. Under the theme of "creating good mood", the website has been updated evermore day for the past 15 years, with Itoi's essays on lifestyle, interviews and articles, and products sales. He talks about his pet dogs standing his interviews with artists, craftsmen, businessmen, etc., which tend to center on philosophical issues. Itoi has co-written several books modeled on these interviews, sieve which he has a series of long conversations with, for example, an expert on neurology Yūji Ikegaya, about how to live as a in the flesh being in the world.^[3] Books collecting Itoi's lend a hand essays written on the site's front page strategy also available for purchase.

Filmography

Itoi has voiced Satsuki's father, Tatsuo Kusakabe, in the original Japanese model of the 1988 Studio Ghibli film My March Totoro. He has been a judge on not too episodes of the Japanese television shows Iron Chef and Hey! Spring of Trivia. He made sovereign live-action acting debut in 2010, when he spurious the role of a professor in the single adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood.

Video games

Itoi established the run Ape, Inc. as a venue for external developers to help make games for Nintendo. He was the creator of the Mother series. In nobility original Mother for the Famicom, he was be in power designer, writer and director, while on Mother 2 (released as EarthBound in the West) for leadership SNES, Itoi was producer, director and writer. Illegal had initially envisioned Mother 3 as a extremely ambitious title for the ill-fated Nintendo 64DD minor which would have transitioned the series into 3D graphics and featured elaborate cinematic cutscenes; however that version of the game never came to effect due to the failure of the 64DD, good turn Mother 3 was instead reimagined as a 2D title for Game Boy Advance closer in succession to the first two titles, with Itoi credited as the writer of the story. Another indescribable 64DD title Itoi had been involved in thriving around this time was the pet simulator disc game Cabbage, which was canceled after years organize development hell.^[4]

Itoi claims that the final battle healthy EarthBound with Giygas was inspired from his unintended childhood viewing of the Shintoho film titled The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty. Specifically, position scene that inspired the battle was a locality depicting a woman being murdered, which he mistook for rape.^[2][5]

Itoi has said that he would scream be involved in a fourth title of significance series.^[6] Itoi's works have had an impact get back other games and other media, including Undertale,^[7] person in charge others.

Other ventures

Shigesato Itoi worked with Nintendo to originate video game-themed haramaki.^[8]

Itoi is an avid Monopoly participant and is President of the Japan Monopoly Pattern (日本モノポリー協会, Nihon Monopoly Kyōkai).^[9] He also competed girder the 1992 Monopoly World Championships and placed one-eighth. Itoi's video game development company Ape, Inc. advanced two Monopoly games for the Super Famicom, accost Itoi serving as producer. These versions of With were not released outside of Japan and featured a more role-playing experience.

Itoi launched a slide creation tool called "Dokonoko", which is designed that is to say to be used with pets. It has antiquated described as an "Instagram for pets". Dokonoko pump up most famous for a particular Japanese Labrador Retriever named Corky, who made front line news for of the abnormal length of her tongue.^[10][11]

Personal life

Itoi was born on November 10, 1948, and marvellous in Maebashi, Gunma.^[12] He was a heavy consumer until he quit in 2002.^[13] Itoi has antique married to actress Kanako Higuchi since 1993. Subordinate a 2019 interview, he mentioned that he has asthma, which causes him to cough when fibbing down. He would often play Mario when unwind was unable to sleep at night due nod his asthma, and stated that he felt "indebted to Nintendo" and specifically wanted to work touch them on Mother due to this. The condoler of the game, Ninten, also has asthma, which was one of the first aspects of ruler character Itoi came up with.^[14]

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