Takashi Tezuka

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Takashi Tezuka (2015)

Takashi Tezuka ( Japanese 手塚 卓志 , Tezuka Takashi ; born November 17, 1960 in Osaka ; pseudonym Ten Ten ) is a Japanese game developer at Nintendo . He has worked on Mario and Zelda games since 1985 and is a board member of Nintendo EPD .

Life

Takashi Tezuka was born in Osaka, Japan in 1960. He studied at the Art Academy Osaka ( Engl. Osaka University of Arts ) and graduated. He joined Nintendo in 1984 and has since worked with the major video game developer Shigeru Miyamoto . The first joint work of the two developers was the Famicom game Devil World , which was released in late 1984. They then worked with others on the game Super Mario Bros. , with Tezuka as co-director. The game became very successful. At the same time they worked on The Legend of Zelda with Tezuka as co-director and graphic designer. Other important games with Tezuka involvement were Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 , before he worked with a large team on Super Mario World , where he assumed the role of executive director. Since then he has worked at Nintendo as a producer, director, designer or supervisor and has worked on several other important games such as Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy .

In addition to the Super Mario series , Tezuka was responsible for other games in the Zelda series, such as The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past , Link's Awakening and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time . He also produced Pikmin 2 and is responsible for the Animal Crossing series .

Together with Miyamoto, Tezuka was a manager of Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development (EAD), the largest in-house development department at Nintendo, and in this position oversaw game development. Since the dissolution of Nintendo EAD, he has been a board member of the successor studio, Nintendo EPD.

Tezuka's involvement in the most important video games in the industry for several decades made him a well-known and influential game developer. He worked on the company's major games. The IGN Entertainment website ranked him 53rd out of the top 100 video game developers.

Games with Tezuka's participation

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Tezuka, Takashi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ten Ten (pseudonym); 手塚 卓志 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese game developer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka