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Miyamoto’s Donkey Kong Ideas Had a Nintendo Bath-Time Boost

Retro Replay collage: Donkey Kong on the Brain, with Miyamoto, an illustrated bath and boiler, hanafuda cards and game imagery.

Some people do their best thinking in the bath. While working on the original Donkey Kong in the early 1980s, Shigeru Miyamoto had a particularly convenient one: Nintendo’s company bath. Its hot water came from the boiler used by the playing-card factory. That’s quite a long way from an arcade cabinet, but apparently a good place to get your thoughts in order. He was staying in Nintendo’s company housing and bathing at… Read more