In this month’s issue of Wired magazine, readers can find a little snippet of an interview with the grand-daddy of video gaming, Shigeru Miyamoto. Thankfully, the cool folks over at Wired have provided the full text of the 90-minute interview for perusal on their website. It’s definitely interesting hearing the thoughts and ideas of the man behind Mario, Zelda, and many more of your favorite things for the past 20+ years. While much of the interview focuses on Wii Fit and Miyamoto’s inspirations and reactions to it (it’s the first issue published after the game was released), he does go into some detail about other inspirations, the rest of the gaming world, and fat people.

What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise. When I was growing up, I would spend my days running around in the hills and mountains of Kyoto, and there probably aren’t many kids who are doing that now. But, I think that that’s not necessarily the cause of videogames so much as the change in lifestyle.

Unfortunately, there’s no video to the interview, meaning we can’t see any of Miyamoto’s trademark antics. Check it out when you get the chance, as it’s well worth the read. Hell, this man pretty much invented everything you’ve done with your spare time for the last 20 years (he created the original NES controller, paving the way for every device that followed).

(Picture grabbed from Wired.com. Thanks!)

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