There are certain individuals whose contribution to video games are huge and without whom the modern landscape for our beloved hobby would be very different. Masayuki Uemura is one of those people. Today, it was announced the Japanese engineer, who helped create the influential NES and SNES consoles, died on December 6 at the age of 78.
Born June 20, 1943, Uemura grew up in Tokyo and attended the Chiba Institute of Technology as a young man. He joined Sharp Corporation in 1972 as an engineer.
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