{"id":437571,"date":"2025-11-07T09:08:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/nes-snes-creator-masayuki-uemura-dies-at-78\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:08:40","slug":"nes-snes-creator-masayuki-uemura-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/nes-snes-creator-masayuki-uemura-dies-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"NES, SNES Creator Masayuki Uemura Dies At 78"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nes-snes-creator-masayuki-uemura-dies-at-78.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>The lead engineer behind the Nintendo Entertainment System and its successor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Masayuki Uemura, has died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First reported by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/22825994\/nes-snes-famicom-creator-masayuki-uemura-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polygon<\/a><\/em>, this news comes by way of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcgs.jp\/?p=1598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies<\/a><\/em> at Ritsumeikan University, which announced today that the legendary designer died on December 6. He was 78 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<article class=\"embedded-entity align-left\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nes-snes-creator-masayuki-uemura-dies-at-78-1.jpg\" typeof=\"Image\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> Japan Media Arts Festival Archive<br \/>\nMasayuki Uemura <\/article>\n<p>Uemura began working for Nintendo in 1972, where he quickly got to work prototyping light-gun games technology that would eventually pave the way for games like Duck Hunt. He then was selected to lead Nintendo\u2019s home console initiative, as noted by <em>Polygon<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 1981, work had begun on what would become the Famicon, perhaps more commonly referred to as the NES in the West. It officially launched two years later in 1983, and then Uemura and the team that helped create the NES got to work on the Super Famicon aka SNES, which would be released in 1990.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uemura retired in 2004, and he soon began working as a professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. There, he taught game development. The university will be holding a memorial service for him at a later unannounced date.<\/p>\n<p><i>[Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/22825994\/nes-snes-famicom-creator-masayuki-uemura-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polygon<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/obituary\/2021\/12\/09\/nes-snes-creator-masayuki-uemura-dies-at-78\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead engineer behind the Nintendo Entertainment System and its successor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Masayuki Uemura, has died.\u00a0 First reported by Polygon, this news comes by way of the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University, which announced today that the legendary designer died on December 6. He was 78 years old.\u00a0 Japan Media Arts Festival Archive Masayuki Uemura Uemura began working for Nintendo in 1972, where he quickly got to work prototyping light-gun games technology that would eventually pave the way for games like Duck Hunt. 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