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    Miyamoto Makes Time Asian Hero List

    TIME Asia has published a special anniversary issue, chronicling 60 Years of Asian Heroes. Guess who made the list? If you picked Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Bruce Lee, or the Dalai Lama, you guessed right.

    If you picked Nintendo's chief game designer Shigeru Miyamoto you also get a cookie.

    The Donkey Kong and Legend of Zelda creator made the short, esteemed list and was honorably profiled by Simscreator Will Wright. The feature, along with Will's glowing praise of the "Walt Disney of electronic gaming", is available online.

    Other things I learned from the feature include discovering that Freddie Mercury (aka Farrokh Bulsara) is Parsi and that Chinese actress Gong Li is smokin' hot at 41. The more you know...

    Shigeru Miyamoto: The video-game guru who made it O.K. to play


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