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Itoi's significant artistic achievements did not move Miyamoto, however, who dismissed him as just another celebrity with a commercial interest in games, not an artistic one.

He agreed on the condition he could pitch his own game idea to the company.

For this kind of multi-disciplinarian creative force, the emergence of the video game medium presented a beguiling opportunity.īut it was Nintendo that first approached Itoi in 1987 to ask if he'd consider writing the advertising slogan for one of its games. As well as providing voice acting for the seminal Studio Ghibli film, My Neighbour Totoro, Itoi wrote each of the movie studio's film taglines and even co-wrote songs with the Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

In 1981 he co-authored a collection of short stories with the country's most successful contemporary novelist, Haruki Murakami, while his 1983 slogan for a Woody Allen-fronted advertising campaign for the Seibu Department store remains one of the Japanese advertising industry's best known. At the time, Itoi was famous across Japan or his work as a slogan writer, the Nipponese Don Draper. The game was followed by an enhanced Nintendo 64 version known as Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No.1 Ketteihan!.Shigesato Itoi cried, so the story goes, on the way home from his first meeting with Shigeru Miyamoto, after Nintendo's most famous game designer had rejected Itoi's idea for a video game. Between Mato February 28, 1998, players could download data for new tournament variations of the game on to their Satellaview 8M Memory Pack, as well as two related magazines. The cassette (cartridge) game also featured support for the Satellaview service (see Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No. The player is able to catch fish which they can sell for money, for more fishing related items and bigger/harder to catch fish. In this game, the player, as Shigesato Itoi, can explore a lake and set up a boat to go fishing. It is one of the games that uses the SA-1 enhancement chip. 1 is the first game in the series of the same name by Shigesato Itoi, released for the Super Famicom exclusively in Japan. ©1997 Nintendo/HAL Laboratory/Shigesato Itoi