The King of the Mushroom Kingdom

This past weekend Shigeru Miyamoto visited Nintendo World in New York City. Hundreds of people stood in line for hours to get a few moments with the man behind some of Nintendo's most well known games. The Game Chair has a look at what it felt like to be on the ground at the event, while Joystiq has a more information based writeup of the event. From Joystiq's post: "While there, we learned that Miyamoto is left-handed. That had to have been tough for him growing up, because in Japanese culture left-handedness is loaded with negative meaning and experiences. It's considered rude to hold your chopsticks in your left hand in Japan and China, for instance. It's also a helluva lot more difficult to write classic kanji with the left hand. Top calligraphers are never left-handed, as brush strokes look wrong when pushed across a page rather than pulled across the page with the right hand. It's also considered a sure sign of creativity and artistry, according to some."

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Link is a Lefty

[Phil Resch]

Seeing this article summary sparked something in my memory. I seemed to remember hearing once upon a time that Link, from the Legend of Zelda, is left-handed.

This Wikipedia article tells me I remembered correctly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_(Legend_of_Zelda )

Seems pretty obvious to me that Shigeru Miyamoto's being a southpaw has something to do with it.

(I'm a lefty too, which is why it stayed in my memory.)