Iwata Asks, SMB 25th, Vol. 5 p. 2

Cite as: Iwata Asks, SMB 25th, Vol. 5 p. 2
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Licence: © Nintendo; quoted briefly for research and criticism
Credit: Nintendo Co., Ltd.; interview by Satoru Iwata with Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, Toshihiko Nakago and Koji Kondo.
Notes: Tezuka and Kondo recall joining Nintendo in April 1984, and Miyamoto recalls appointing Kondo to sound for Super Mario Bros.

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Nintendo names the game's original developers as Shigeru Miyamoto, who wrote its specifications; Takashi Tezuka, a designer in his first year at Nintendo when the first plans were drawn up; Toshihiko Nakago, president of SRD, the contractor whose programmers built it; and Koji Kondo, whom Miyamoto appointed to sound.	`Vol. 5, p. 2, The New Guys, Too!Vol. 5, p. 2, The New Guys, Too!Vol. 5, p. 2, The New Guys, Too!`	Interview
Kondo says he was hired in 1984 with one other person as Nintendo's first music staff; before them, programmers such as Hirokazu Tanaka also wrote the music.	`Vol. 5, p. 2, The New Guys, Too!Vol. 5, p. 2, The New Guys, Too!Vol. 5, p. 2, The New Guys, Too!Vol. 5, p. 2, The New Guys, Too!`	Interview
Miyamoto's specifications are dated 20 February 1985, and the game was on ROM about six months later. They have Up on the d-pad jump and A attack with items, and Mario flying a rocket; a later drawing by Tezuka put him on a cloud, which wasn't used.	`Vol. 5, p. 2, The New Guys, Too!Vol. 5, p. 2, The New Guys, Too!`	Interview