Masayuki Uemura, the lead architect of the NES and SNES consoles, passed away on December 6, at the age of 78.
The long-serving Nintendo employee, who worked at the company from 1971 to 2004, was responsible for the creation of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment, commonly known as the NES and SNES. The consoles were known as the Famicom and Super Famicom in Japan.
He worked alongside Gunpei Yokoi and Genyo Takeda on Nintendo’s early light-gun games, before
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