Securing an audience with Miyamoto in Japan is a little like trying to rescue Princess Toadstool.
Yamauchi tapped Miyamoto to design a new game to replace Radar Scope in those cabinets.
Two days after my meeting with Miyamoto, I went to Sonobe to have a look around.
The awards also honoured legendary game maker Shigeru Miyamoto who was given a lifetime achievement award.
Other Bafta fellows from the video games industry include Peter Molyneux, Shigeru Miyamoto and Will Wright.
SuperMario was created by Nintendo employee Miyamoto, regarded now as the Spielberg of video games.
He thought himself to be far more talented than anyone at Nintendo, including Miyamoto.
Miyamoto fans have made pilgrimages to some of the larger limestone caves near Sonobe.
Months after seeing Miyamoto in Los Angeles, I was invited to meet with him in Japan.
When looking to the future of the video games industry, Miyamoto sees the promise of continued success.
At Nintendo Mr Miyamoto has been the creative force behind the Super Mario and Legend of Zelda games.
"The original GameCube game was sort of a mix -- these ghost events and exploration of the mansion, " Miyamoto said.
Junko Miyamoto, a veteran campaigner, says much will depend on how seriously the police choose to enforce the new law.
Yet it is for the nature of his games, rather than for their commercial success, that Miyamoto is so widely revered.
Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's famed game designer, said what was missing were games for the Wii U that made its appeal clear.
Earlier, Miyamoto, a bluegrass fanatic, had suggested that learning to play a game is like learning to play a musical instrument.
Miyamoto has designed or overseen the development of many other blockbusters, among them the Legend of Zelda series, Star Fox, and Pikmin.
Miyamoto is the closest thing there is to an autobiographical game creator.
But author Miyamoto sees the current phenomenon as part of increasing disaffection with the constraints placed on adolescents in Japan's conservative society.
Through a translator, Miyamoto told CNN.com that having a second screen for gaming in the living room is a new experience for gamers.
Miyamoto said that while the Wii U does offer more choices for families, it doesn't necessarily need to be the center of entertainment.
"The fact that we've reached an age where video games are being received the way they are just makes me very grateful, " Miyamoto said.
In fact, Nintendo titan Shigeru Miyamoto recalled the original 3DS handheld plans to add the gyroscope, even though hardware features had been "set" internally.
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Even the Nintendo Wii owes its design, in part, to Miyamoto.
Next up was Komugi Mountain, atop which, Miyamoto had told me, I would find the ruins of Sonobe Castle, the epicenter of his childhood explorations.
Created in 1981 by Nintendo's legendary videogame designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario was initially only known as "Jumpman, " the nondescript hero of arcade hit Donkey Kong.
Miyamoto has been a superstar in the gaming world for more than two decades, but neither he nor the company seems inclined to exploit his stardom.
Miyamoto said he wants the game players and the developers to have kyokan: for the players to feel about the game what the developers felt themselves.
Miyamoto said he wanted to display how different Luigi is from Mario while at the same time upgrading the first GameCube game with a second screen.
Miyamoto, of course, went on to create several of the biggest video game franchises of all time, including Mario, Donkey Kong and The Legend of Zelda.
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