Nintendo Classic Mini interview, vol. 3

Cite as: Nintendo Classic Mini interview, vol. 3
Original: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2016/November/Nintendo-Classic-Mini-NES-special-interview-Volume-3-Super-Mario-Bros-1157085.html
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Accessed: 2026-10-26
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Credit: Nintendo's official English translation of the interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka and Koji Kondo, interviewed by Akinori Sao for the NES Classic Mini. The Japanese original was published on nintendo.co.jp in November 2016.
Notes: Primary developer testimony. Sections: the two games' development; "Human Wave Tactics" (the bird's-eye view abandoned for a side view; the Raccoon tail; the two-and-a-half-year schedule; 20-30 people; the Map Room; Kondo alone on sound). The page is one long article; cite the section heading and quote.

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In Nintendo's 2016 interview, Miyamoto and Tezuka put the team at 20 to 30 people. Miyamoto describes a "Map Room" where programmers entered map data from paper sheets every day, and Kondo says he was alone on sound.	`Human Wave TacticsHuman Wave TacticsHuman Wave Tactics`	Interview
Miyamoto says work began in the spring of 1986, after The Lost Levels, and that a spring 1988 release slipped by another six months. Tezuka says the game was first built with a view from above at a slant; Miyamoto told him that view lost the sense of distance to the ground, and the game became a side view.	`Human Wave TacticsHuman Wave TacticsHuman Wave TacticsHuman Wave Tactics`	Interview
A remake for the Super NES came in Super Mario All-Stars in 1993, and the NES game is one of the games built into Nintendo's Classic Mini NES of 2016.	`closing exchange`	Magazine