Masayuki Uemura (1943–2021), Nintendo NES and Super NES creator

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NES and SNES, Masayuki Uemura, has died at the age of 78.As first reported in detail by VGC, Uemura joined Nintendo in 1972 originally helping to develop physical gun games. These included the Laser Clay Shooting System which was popular in Japanese arcades at the time.From there, Uemura was put in charge of R&D2, the division responsible for creating Nintendo’s hardware.

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