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Nintendo's game guru Shigeru Miyamoto throws his arms up in frustration a co-worker pops his head up from the next cubicle

You okay?

Yeah, well

No, not really

The colleague isn't surprised. He's been hearing Miyamoto's groans for weeks

Miyamoto designed the hugely successful Donkey Kong and Super Mario Brothers, but now

It's 1995 and nailing this three-dimensional world of Super Mario 64

It's tougher than he ever imagined the in-game camera again, right?

Miyamoto nods and runs a hand through his mock top hairdo. What else could it be?

The trouble was familiar to his co-worker

The Mario 64 team wants the players to feel like they're inside the game world not outside looking in

But how exactly? Well first they have the camera trail behind Mario like a drone

But that made it hard for players to judge Mario's trademark leaps

Then the camera followed directly behind Mario

But that gave players a permanent view of his backside

So they zoomed out, but then Mario looked ridiculously small

So we just tried giving the player total control over the camera's position

Well, that sounds good. What's wrong with that?

Miyamoto turns to his colleague and explains further

Controlling Mario in the camera at the same time. It's just too much

You have to constantly shuffle between playing hero and directing the camera. This isn't gonna work

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