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Nintendo Enthusiast Netflix’s upcoming documentary about video games, High Score, releases on Aug. 19. (Check out our review!) The final episode covers, among other things, the beginning of the relationship between Nintendo and Argonaut Software and how that culminated in the development of Star Fox for Super Nintendo. Former Argonaut developers Dylan Cuthbert and Giles Goddard speak about how that meant moving to Japan to develop Star Fox right there in a Nintendo office — and how legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto was constantly smoking cigarettes in their work space. [...]
“They never had anybody outside Nintendo working in the building,” explained Goddard. “They actually made a separate office for us in one room on our own, basically segregated out.”
“The only place in the office where they allowed Miyamoto to smoke was in the place, the area where we were,” said Cuthbert. “He’d light up behind us and he’s, like, smoking away. And we’re, like, programming away and we’re like, ‘Oh, is he back again?’ So we’d be trying to implement something quite interesting, and then he just starts talking about trees or something, or, you know, just something completely out there. But we realized after a while that that’s actually the reason why he’s so much a creative genius. It’s because his brain is kind of thinking about all these different things at the same time.” [...]
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