[polygon]
NES and SNES creator Masayuki Uemura dies at 78
Uemura held a position at Ritsumeikan University until his death
The lead architect of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo
Entertainment System, Masayuki Uemura, has died. The Ritsumeikan Center
for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University announced Uemura's death on
Thursday, saying he died Dec. 6 at the age of 78.
Uemura first joined Nintendo in 1972, and worked with the company to build
light-gun games, helping to create the predecessor to Duck Hunt. After
moving to Nintendo's new R&D2 team, he headed up the squad's home
console initiative - a mandate from then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi.
Uemura began development on the Famicom (the Japanese name for the NES) in
1981 in an attempt to bring the arcade to player's living rooms. R&D2
launched the Famicom in 1983, and Uemura's team built its successor, the
SNES (known as the Super Famicom in Japan), for its 1990 release.
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