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Scott McCrae

Despite a 30-year run in charge of Star Fox and F-Zero, former Nintendo veteran Takaya Imamura "always wished I could have experienced developing for the NES at least once"

F-Zero.

Former Nintendo developer Takaya Imamura has expressed disappointment that he never had the chance to work on the original NES while he was at the company.

In 2021, Takaya Imamura left Nintendo after 32 years with the company. Imamura is best known as the shepherd of the Star Fox and F-Zero series for the majority of his time there, working on each entry in the franchises. He also made one of the biggest impacts on the games industry of all time back in 2000 when he invented the freaky little pajama-wearing fairy man Tingle and unleashed him onto the world in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

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