The New York Times has a nice bio piece on Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Nintendo’s Wii game system as well as Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, and Zelda! The latter 3 games have sold more than 350 million copies while the new Wii system has sold 25 million units.

• He lives near Kyoto with his wife and two school-age children.
• This past spring, he was voted the most influential person in the world in an online Time 100 poll.
• He has been an instrumental part of Nintendo gaining a net worth of $8 billion and making Nintendo’s former chairman, Hiroshi Yamauchi the richest man in Japan.