Masayuki Uemura was a Japanese video game producer who created the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Super NES home gaming systems.Uemura began working for Nintendo in 1971, at a time when the company was just beginning to expand from toys and board games into electronic gaming.
With the success of their 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, Nintendo’s president asked Uemura to make something that would allow arcade game fans to play their favorite games at home on their TVs, with easy-to-use video games stored on cartridges.
He created the NES, originally known as the Famicom when it was released in 1983. Donkey Kong was among the first games available for the NES, which, along with Super Mario Bros., helped make it an international.
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