Interview
Marcus Palerelli is the head director of U.S and Canada of Nintendo and an ambassador worker as one of the assistant director for Square-Enix,Capcom,Sega, Rockstar North, and Indie Games. Marcus is 47 and was born in 1967 and lives in Ontario and lives in a mansion near Hudson bay and owns a house boat and an island on Superior Lake near Pancake Bay. Marcus has won the Canadian Peace Award for his donation of half a billion dollars for the earthquake in Nunavut, he has also won an award from nintendo for Best Programmer Award. Marcus has helped in many games like the new Super Smash Bros and is working with Square-Enix on Kingdom Hearts 3.
Questions for the interview:
-What Inspired you to become an award winning Video Game Programer?
Well how it all started out for me is in 1972. When I played this exciting game called pong, I wondered how it was made and I decided to find that answer if it is the last thing I do and I found out it was called a video game and I then decided how it was made and after when I found out that there has to be a program to run the code. Than I found myself wondering how it will become later on in my life, and that game stuck with me my life and that influenced me to make video games.
-When did you apply for nintendo and why did you apply there?
I was one of the first employees that applied to nintendo in 1989. it was a warm spring in april and I was visiting my friend I was 22 young and careless and most of all free from my abusive parents. In Kyoto and he said to apply for this video game company called nintendo. The general manager Shigeru Miyamoto saw much in me and gave me a good salary of 250$ an hour and but me as one of the programmers for Donkey-Kong and he loved my work and at that time other companies saw my amazing work and they paid great amounts of money for me to work on games like Rockstar-Games and let me tell you I was happy not to eat rice ten times a day. I was also one of the founders for Nintendo Canada and America.
-How did you become the man you are today, and could you be here today if you didn’t make Video Games?
I became the man I am today because of Video-Games,and if I never became who I am today that I am today well than I don’t think. I can bare it because my life now is awesome and amazing and if people hate me they're just jealous because my life is the perfect life I dreamed about all those years ago than you might as well through me out of a window.