Biking to work is usually thought of as the healthier option, but one major video game company won't allow their best creative mind to cycle because they're afraid he might go the way of "Frogger."
Shigeru Miyamoto, the brilliant creator of "Super Mario Brothers," "Donkey Kong," "The Legend of Zelda" and many, many more iconic video game franchises, is too important to Nintendo for the company to allow him to bike to work.
The New Yorker profiled Miyamoto a few years ago, and the magazine revealed that while the 63-year-old used to bike to work, Nintendo put the kibosh on that method of commuting "for his sa fey and its peace of mind." Instead he drives.
This fact delights video game fans to this day.
Another fun Miyamoto fact? The man was knighted in France, becoming the first video game creator to be knighted under the country's Order of Arts and Letters. He technically doesn't get to add "sir" to his name, but Mario and Link don't have the honorific, and they're plenty heroic.
PeNeMuTaNTe on March 5th, 2018 at 06:02 UTC »
According to history, during his early years working for Nintendo, Miyamoto and his wife (also employee of Nintendo by that time) used to ride his bike to work everyday, as they rented a house close to Nintendo HQ.
They did this for several years but after the release of Super Mario and due to his popularity, Nintendo asked Miyamoto to stop riding his bike to work and use a private company's car instead for security reasons.
arwear on March 5th, 2018 at 05:29 UTC »
I believe this is a common company policy for many Japanese companies. Mine only allows if there are no other possible options and you have insurance, because some guy hit a pedestrian during a commute which caused legal issues.
BAD_MR_FROSTMAN on March 5th, 2018 at 02:36 UTC »
Put him in bubble wrap his survival is paramount! lol