64Dream Shigesato Itoi Interview

November 5th, 2011 | Interviews, Itoi, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge

It sounds like Chewy’s on a Japanese magazine article translation binge, so here’s another big Shigesato Itoi interview, this time from the November 1996 issue of 64Dream.

The article discusses (among other things):

• Itoi’s aversion to assigning “themes” to video games
• Itoi’s original intent to make MOTHER 3 in 2-D
• The extent of completion of MOTHER 3 even by the fall of 1996
• Itoi’s inspiration for the story of MOTHER 3 and desire to make a detective novel in game form
• A Mr. Saturn spinoff game!?
• Itoi’s phone calls to his game designer about MOTHER 3 in the middle of the night–before MOTHER 2 was even done
• The origin of the name of the Nintendo 64
• Itoi’s personal relationship with Nintendo

You can check out Chewy’s article translation on her site here. Now give her all your Giygas cookies!