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Creator of the NES and SNES, Masayuki Uemura, has died

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NES and SNES, Masayuki Uemura, has died at the age of 78.As first reported in detail by VGC, Uemura joined Nintendo in 1972 originally helping to develop physical gun games.

These included the Laser Clay Shooting System which was popular in Japanese arcades at the time.From there, Uemura was put in charge of R&D2, the division responsible for creating Nintendo’s hardware.

He led development of its four Colour TV-Game consoles which were dedicated devices with games built-in.After Nintendo’s other research and development team – R&1 – launched the Game & Watch, Masayuki Uemura received a phone call from Nintendo’s president at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi asking him to develop a way for video games to be played on home TV sets.

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