In Tokyo, Shigeru Miyamoto holds up Nintendo's new portable video game device, the DS, which is something like Johannes Gutenberg showing off a Smith-Corona. Miyamoto is the father of modern gaming, creator of hallmark 1980s titles Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, and the Legend of Zelda series; and latter-day smash hits Star Fox and Pikmin. If you've played a video game, its designers owe something to Miyamoto.
As would be expected for often over-devoted button-smashers' golden calf, Miyamoto doesn't necessarily have fans so much as followers. Here's a biography of the genius for the sober.