Legendary designer behind F-Zero and Star Fox nearly worked at Konami, but his mom told him to take the job at Nintendo

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And what can you say to your mother?"

He also worked with the SNES before its release in 1990.

I wanted to get out.

Imamura’s probably left his mark on some of thebest Nintendo Switch gamesout there.