It is a sad day for gaming as the lead architect of the NES and SNES, Masayuki Uemara has passed away at the age of 78 according to documentarian team Archipel.
Masayuki Uemura initially joined Nintendo in the early 1970s and worked with the technology that would eventually be used for the light detection on the NES Zapper peripheral. He would go on to lead the hardware development division of Nintendo, R&D2, which was responsible for the development of Nintendo’s Color TV-Game line of systems before developing the NES and SNES for
Nintendo has not made any official statements.