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[[File:Itoi_Saturn_4295.jpg|link=Earthbound|frame|[[Blatant Lies|That's Itoi on the left]], [[Verbal Tic|zoom]].]]
{{quote|''"A game isn’t something that can be made by one person alone. Well, it’s possible that a really hard-working game creator could finish a game all alone, but even then he would still need a player. Games grow and mature when they’re created, played, and conveyed over and over."''
|'''Itoi''', in [http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/01/one-year-after-mother-3/ a 2007 issue of Nintendo Dream magazine]}}
{{quote|''"Being free does not lead to decadence. It brings out potential."''
|'''Itoi''', in [http://www.webinknow.com/2011/12/content-marketing-japanese-unusual-style.html a 2011 interview with David Meerman Scott]}}
'''Shigesato Itoi''' (糸井 重里, b. November 10, 1948) is a Japanese essayist and copywriter whose works are widely considered to have had a defining influence on modern Japanese culture. He's dabbled in pretty much everything at some point or another over the past thirty years or so - he's done books, he's done songwriting, he's done websites, he's done voice acting, he's done film, he's done television, [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|he's done day planners]]... The man is an endless font of variety, really, and Japan loves him for it.
Of course, that's [[He Also Did|not what he's known for]] in the western world. No, the west knows him better for something that to him and to Japan was little more than a little experiment in storytelling he did on the side. Around here, he's best known as the brilliant mind behind the ''[[MOTHER]]'' trilogy of [[Nintendo]] video games, namely ''[[MOTHER 1|MOTHER]]'', ''[[EarthBound]]'' and ''[[Mother 3]]''. He's a good friend of [[Shigeru Miyamoto]], [[Hirokazu Tanaka]] and Satoru Iwata (who [[Genius Programming|singlehandedly reprogrammed]] ''[[EarthBound]]'' from scratch midway through development, rescuing the entire project when all seemed lost), he served on the board of Nintendo subsidiary [[Kirby|HAL]] [[Super Smash Bros.|Laboratory]] for a while, and he is an occasional participant in the ''Iwata Asks'' interview series. Other video game endeavours of his include bass fishing video games for the [[Super Famicom]] and [[Nintendo 64]] (he was ''really'' into bass fishing in the late 90s) and a health diary for [[Nintendo D Si]].
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