Shigeru Miyamoto has this year been inducted into the Golden Joystick Awards "Industry Personality Of The Year Hall Of Fame". It is the first time that such an award has been given out at the well-known annual event, and an honour for Miyamoto.

On receiving the award, everyones favourite plumber fetishist had the following to say:

"I'm honored to become the first recipient of the Golden Joystick Hall of Fame award, I would like to thank all of the game fans and game media in Europe who are helping to energize the video game industry. For more than 20 years I have been fortunate enough to work with very talented people with amazing foresight from the early Donkey Kong days to our most recent, Mario Kart: Double Dash!! I really have enjoyed every minute. It's an amazing industry to work in."

Well, quite frankly, we're happy to have you! Well done!