Personally, I think if miyamoto didn't do what he did over 2 decades ago, someone else would have (either slower or faster, better or worse etc).
Fact that he did though, I would consider Miyamoto to be the father of modern day gaming (considering games can technically stretch as far back as checkers/chess/card games) because he did start the era of gaming we are in today (with Super Mario Bros), despite not actually being the person to make the first "game" as we know the word to be today.







