Miyamoto nominated again for Time 100

by Chris Greenhough { Apr 11th 2008 at 5:00PM }

It's that time of year again, folks -- the point at which we implore you to help us shamelessly rig an internet poll so that Nintendo design guru and all-round hero Shigeru Miyamoto can climb as high as possible in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people.

The Shigster is amongst 207 names to be shortlisted for the final Time 100, and currently lies in 25th spot, after coming ninth last year. At the time of writing he's sandwiched between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (who, as a self-made billionaire of 24, we find eminently punchable) and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of the assassinated Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto.

On his profile page, the magazine mentions the usual Miyamoto achievements (Donkey Kong, Mario, father of modern videogaming, etc.), but also refers to Super Mario Galaxy and Wii Fit, and ponders whether the latter will help "reverse gravity for all the obese, video game–playing kids out there." If it does, we'd say that's worthy of a top five spot next year!

[Via Eurogamer]

Tags: influence, influential, miyamoto, poll, shigeru-miyamoto, shiggy, time, time-100

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

markhill66 @ Apr 11th 2008 5:19PM

"Eminently punchable" haha. Double true.

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Papytendo @ Apr 11th 2008 5:40PM

Rate 100 F5 and repeat up to 19 Whoo!!!!!!!!!

Mr Khan @ Apr 11th 2008 5:56PM

Its weird that they didn't track IPs last year, they're just begging to be botted

Dash @ Apr 11th 2008 6:22PM

I don't the pool will count that much. I mean, right now the one on top is Rain, a "25 year old Korean star", followed by Colbert.

But yeah, I voted for Shigeru. And Colbert.

hvnlysoldr @ Apr 11th 2008 7:04PM

You see how influential they are? They have legions of people rigging their votes because they had influenced them to do so.

Mr Khan @ Apr 11th 2008 7:58PM

I seem to remember Rain and Colbert leading last year, too

However, the tragedy with Bhutto could plug her son over the top, though i'm at a loss for what he himself has done, kinda like why Indira Gandhi was so beloved, only before she became Prime Minister