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Former Argonaut devs recall Miyamoto's heavy smoking and wild tangents during StarFox's development

It was a very different time for Miyamoto
by rawmeatcowboy
13 August 2020
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Netflix's upcoming game documentary series 'High Score' includes a snippet in the final episode about Argonaut and Nintendo working together on StarFox for the SNES. Former Argonaut developers Dylan Cuthbert and Giles Goddard recalled what it was like working within Nintendo's walls, and having Miyamoto hanging out with them. You can see what the pair had to say below.

GG: “They never had anybody outside Nintendo working in the building. They actually made a separate office for us in one room on our own, basically segregated out.”

DC: “The only place in the office where they allowed Miyamoto to smoke was in the place, the area where we were. He’d light up behind us and he’s, like, smoking away. And we’re, like, programming away and we’re like, ‘Oh, is he back again?’ So we’d be trying to implement something quite interesting, and then he just starts talking about trees or something, or, you know, just something completely out there. But we realized after a while that that’s actually the reason why he’s so much a creative genius. It’s because his brain is kind of thinking about all these different things at the same time.”

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