Lance Barr, the man who designed the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Super Nintendo, has announced his retirement. The announcement was made on his LinkedIn page, where he revealed that “after almost 39 years at Nintendo, I am retiring and moving onto ‘other’ projects.” It remains to be seen just what those other projects might be, but hopefully we’ll see more of his creative genius in the near future. Barr has had a historic run with the company, designing some of its most memorable products. It’s hard to overstate what an impact his designs have had, and how they’ve shaped the gaming industry.
Barr began his career with Nintendo in 1982, first designing arcade cabinets for the company. The Famicom released in Japan in 1983, but the system would see a number of changes before coming to North America in 1985. Barr helped redesign the Japanese Famicom, in order to sell the…
