Shikamaru Ninja said:
This picture was an unexpected surprise. The man to the left of Miyamoto is Mark Haigh-Hutchinson. I had the pleasure of working with him for a couple of years. He was a great person to get caught into a conversation with, and had a true passion for gaming.
I knew that he had worked at Lucasarts for a time, and was constantly pushing him for an anecdote from those days, being such a huge fan of Monkey Island, Sam and Max, Indy: Fate of Atlantis, and others. He was pleasantly surprised when I knew of an old artistic technique of taking pixel gradients, and animating the palletes to achieve a look of fluidity for things like waterfalls, or lava. His eyes widened and he described it as a "lost art" in these new days of 3D.
He was equally enthusiastic, when I kept my SNES collection at work, to see that I owned "Metal Warriors," a rare sequel to Cybernator that some people he knew had worked on.
I believe this picture was taken when he had travelled to Japan to work directly with Nintendo on the "Shadows of the Empire" N64 game, during his time at Lucasarts.
Sadly Mark passed away a few years ago, and is sorely missed. His work was prolific for the industry, and at least stretched back all the way to the original classic "Paperboy," as well as a later favorite of his, "Zombies Ate My Neighbors."
It was a pleasant surprise to see him up on here today