Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Zelda, is extremely well-known among the video game world.  If it wasn't for his ingenious mind, there wouldn't be classic games link the Zelda series, Donkey Kong, and all of the Mario games.

Shigeru Miyamoto was born on November 16, 1952, in Sonebe, Kyoto, Japan.  He loved to play in the nearby fields, explore his surroundings, and fish in the river.  He liked to play baseball with his friends and attend puppet shows and plays.  Miyamoto was a very creative child; he would paint, build things, and read to vent his creativity.

Out of all of his hobbies, Miyamoto loved to explore the most.  One day, as a child, he discovered the opening to a cave.  When he finally worked up the courage to go in, he found the opening to another chamber to the cave.  That was a discovery that he would never forget for the rest of his life. When he was older, Miyamoto attended college.  He was enrolled in the Kanazawa Munici College of Industrial Arts and Crafts in 1970.  Because he only attended class about half the time, it took him five years to get out of college with a degree in industrial design.

Instead, he spent his time drawing in sketchbooks and listening to music.  He taught himself how to play American bluegrass music on the guitar.

When Miyamoto graduated college, he had no clue on what job to get.  He wanted to do something that he liked, not a career in business.  One day, in 1977, an idea came to mind.  He asked his father to call up an old friend, Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran a certain company called Nintendo.  Although he didn't want to, Yamauchi agreed to hold an interview with Miyamoto as a favor to his friend.

    Miyamoto got his interview, and he was a success.  Yamauchi liked him and wanted another meeting with him.  This time, he wanted Miyamoto to bring ideas for toys.  Miyamoto returned with a portfolio and a sack full of toys, and he landed himself a job as Nintendo's first staff artist.

One day, in 1980, Yamauchi called Miyamoto into his office.  He wanted a videogame that would sell.  Miyamoto happily took up the job.  After many ideas, Miyamoto finally came up with a good enough videogame:  Donkey Kong. Although salesmen hated it at the time, Donkey Kong became Nintendo's first super-smash hit.

    Following Donkey Kong's magnificent success, Miyamoto got to create classic games, such as The Legend of Zelda I and II and the Super Mario Bros. series.  He produced eight "Mario" games between 1985 and 1991, and, like the Zelda series, very many more are out today.

Eventually, love struck Miyamoto.  He and a woman named Yasuko, who worked in Nintendo's general administration department, dated and married.  They moved to a small house near Nintendo.  From there, Miyamoto walked or biked to work.

Yasuko stopped working after one of two of her and Miyamoto's babies was born.  Today, Miyamoto still works at Nintendo, and is still considered the "Spielberg" of videogames by many gamers.