Masayuki Uemura, the engineer behind the NES and SNES, has passed away
Masayuki Uemura, the engineer who played a key part in Nintendo's early forays into video games and was the lead architect on both the NES and SNES, has passed away at the age of 78.
The Nintendo that Uemura joined in the 70s was still centred around hanafuda cards, and it was his engineering prowess that helped it make new inroads into the toy industry. Uemura worked alongside Gunpei Yokoi and Genyo Takeda on their early light gun games, before heading up Nintendo's first foray into home consoles with the Color-TV series that started in 1977.
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