Masayuki Uemura, the lead architect of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, has died.
Ritsumeikan University - where Uemura helped co-found and acted as the first director of the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, Japan's only academic institution dedicated to the study of video games - announced today that Uemura had passed away on December 6 at the age of 78 (via NintendoLife, translated via Google).
Uemura joined Nintendo in 1972, where he headed up
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