Former Nintendo Devs recalls “amazing” colleagues who are good at making games and look like “born”
Blog Andrew Joseph 30 Jun , 2025 0

A video game designer and comic artist Takaya Imamura, perhaps best known for his legend in F-Zero, Star Fox and Zelda, said that despite his lofty credibility, there are still “so many amazing people” at Nintendo that he feels “inferior” enough to eventually leave the company.
“Nintendo has a lot of incredible people,” Imamula Written on Xdiscovered and translated Automatic“And I remember always wondering how I prove my worth in an environment like this,” he added, there is always a sense of “inferiority wandering somewhere.”
“When I left the company, I did feel free, as if I had been released from the inferiority complex I had carried for years,” Imamura additional. “But at the same time, there is a lonely idea of thinking, ‘I can’t work with these people anymore…’ That means there are only a few years left until retirement, and because the development of the game often takes many years, I feel like moving forward at my own pace and doing something more creatively freely.”
It might be surprising in reading that it seems that many former Nintendo employees share emotions. A former Nintendo designer, Shinji Watanabe, who is now Epsilon software, follows up simile His former colleague is a “celestial body” agreesaid: “There is actually no choice but to be at Nintendo.
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