The “Father” of the Nintendo Entertainment System in Slovakia for the First Time

Since 1972, he has worked for the Nintendo Company on solar cell technology for the Laser Clay System Shooting project (simulation of shooting with a light weapon developed by Nintendo in 1973) and Beam Gun SP project. Due to the growing demand for development, he was in charge of the management of the Research & Development 2 Division in´ which they worked on the development of several hardware devices such as games for colour televisions, Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom), Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System or BS-X Satellaview. Uemura and his group were responsible for a wide range of hardware and software projects (Donkey Kong, Mario Bros). Since 2004 he has been formally retired but he is still acting as a consultant for Nintendo.