Any fan of Nintendo games will tell you that there is no bigger name in the history of the video game company than Shigeru Miyamoto. He’s widely known as “the father of Mario”, and creator of many iconic video game franchises for multiple Nintendo consoles. But the beginning of Shigeru Miyamoto’s career at Nintendo was a lot quieter compared to what it would eventually become.

In the 1970s, Shigeru Miyamoto was hired at Nintendo as an apprentice in the planning department. He originally got an interview with then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi through a mutual friend of his father. At that time, Miyamoto created the artwork for the coin-operated arcade game Sheriff .

A few years later, he would eventually begin work on a game under the supervision of Gunpei Yokoi. This followed the release of Nintendo’s Radar Scope for arcades, which failed to make an impact in the North American game market, after moderate success in Japan.…