Kensuke Tanabe

Kensuke Tanabe (center), 2013

Kensuke Tanabe ( Japanese田邊 賢 輔Tanabe Kensuke ; born January 26, 1963 in Ikeda , Osaka ), also known as Kenji Tanabe , is a Japanese game developer.

Career

In April 1986, Kensuke Tanabe was employed by the Japanese video game company Nintendo . He was Shigeru Miyamoto's department Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development assigned as a designer and project manager. His first project was Dream Factory: Nervous Panic or Super Mario Bros. 2 , in which he acted as director. A few years later Tanabe was promoted to producer and assigned to Nintendo Software Planning & Development (SPD) around 2004 . There he acts as the producer of the third SPD department and is responsible for the cooperation with the Nintendo Studios Intelligent Systems and the Retro Studios . He also works with Next Level Games and Monster Games .

Ludography (selection)

• Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U 2013) - producer
• Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (3DS 2013) - producer
• Game & Wario (Wii U 2013) - Mini- Game Director
• Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii 2010) - producer
• Metroid Prime Trilogy (Wii 2009) - producer
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii 2007) - producer
• Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (GBA 2005) - producer
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GCN 2004) - producer
• Metroid Prime (GCN 2002) - producer
• Pokémon Stadium (N64 1998) - Co-Director
• Kirby's Dream Land 2 (GB 1995) - Level designer
• Stunt Race FX (SNES 1994) - level designer
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (GB 1993) - script
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES 1991) - script
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES 1988) - level designer
• Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES 1988) - Director
• Dream Factory: Nervous Panic (Famicom 1987) - Director, level designer

Web links

• Kensuke Tanabe at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://media.nintendo.com/pressroom/E32013/bios/Bios_E313_KensukeTanabe.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/25999