Masayuke Uemura, the man credited for creating the NES and SNES, has passed away at the age of 78.
Uemura joined Nintendo in 1972 and originally helped develop physical light gun games for the company, including the Laser Clay Shooting System which was popular in Japanese arcades in the early ’70s.
When Nintendo was divided into separate research and development divisions, Uemura was put in charge of R&D2, the division responsible for creating Nintendo’s hardware, where he led development of its
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