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Inside Nintendo in the 1990s: Star Fox, late nights and making the N64

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Giles Goddard is one of the few westerners who've worked inside Nintendo HQ in Japan. He went there as a young adult in the early 1990s, to help make Star Fox and the SuperFX chip that powered it, and he stayed ever since.

Goddard worked at Nintendo for more than decade, and was instrumental not only in SNES games like Star Fox and Stunt Race FX, but also the creation of the N64. He made the Zelda 64 demo that wowed crowds at a Japanese game show in 1995, and he made the Mario face you pull around at the beginning of Mario 64. Goddard also made 1080 Snowboarding, which is a game idea he's come back to a couple of times over the years.

Today, Goddard works at Chuhai Labs, a company he founded -as Vitei - many years ago. It's best known for Cursed to Golf, but is currently working on a new, multi-year game fans of Star Fox will apparently love...

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Giles Goddard is one of the few westerners who've worked inside Nintendo HQ in Japan. He went there as a young adult in the early 1990s, to help make Star Fox and the SuperFX chip that powered it, and he stayed ever since.

Goddard worked at Nintendo for more than decade, and was instrumental not only in SNES games like Star Fox and Stunt Race FX, but also the creation of the N64. He made the Zelda 64 demo that wowed crowds at a Japanese game show in 1995, and he made the Mario face you pull around at the beginning of Mario 64. Goddard also made 1080 Snowboarding, which is a game idea he's come back to a couple of times over the years.

Today, Goddard works at Chuhai Labs, a company he founded -as Vitei - many years ago. It's best known for Cursed to Golf, but is currently working on a new, multi-year game fans of Star Fox will apparently love...

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