Toshihiko Nakagō

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Toshihiko Nakago ( Jap. 中郷俊彦 , Nakago Toshihiko * about 1957 / 1958 ) is a Japanese game developers . He is the President of Systems Research & Development (SRD), which programs games for Nintendo . Nakago is involved in a supervisory role in the development of the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series .

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In 1979, Nakagō and others founded Systems Research & Development (SRD) with headquarters in Osaka . SRD initially developed CAD programs and Nakagō programmed office calculation software. Nakagō had experience with the 6502 microchip, which was used as the main processor in the Famicom console released by Nintendo in 1983 . Since Nintendo was looking for programmers who were familiar with the chip at the time, Nakagō met Hiroshi Umemiya from the Nintendo Research & Development 2 (R & D2) department, which produced hardware and software for the Famicom, in 1982 .

As a result, Nakagō programmed some early Famicom games for R & D2, including the Famicom implementation of Donkey Kong . After Nakagō and SRD had completed all the planned games, the Donkey Kong developer and then chief developer of the newly founded Nintendo Research & Development 4 (R & D4), Shigeru Miyamoto , spoke to Nakagō. Miyamoto hired Nakagō and his team to program the Famicom games planned by R & D4. The first game that Nakagō programmed for R & D4 was Excitebike . The early R & D4 games were designed by Miyamoto with Takashi Tezuka and programmed by SRD under Nakagō's direction. He was also involved in Super Mario Bros. (1985) and The Legend of Zelda (1986) .

Super Mario Bros. was the first game Miyamoto, Tezuka and Nakagō worked together; at the same time they also developed The Legend of Zelda . Both series of games have had many successors over the years, and the three have been involved in their development in leading positions. Because of the collaboration between Miyamoto, Tezuka and Nakagō, which has existed since 1985, the former and now deceased Nintendo President Satoru Iwata referred to the three as "the big three".

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  1. ↑ "Iwata: Just out of interest, how old were you when I met you for the first time in 1984?"
    "Nakago: I was 26 years old then. Miyamoto-san is five years older than me "(Source: Iwata asks: New Super Mario Bros. Wii )
  2. ↑ Kyoto-Report.blogspot.de
  3. ↑ a b Iwata asks: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
  4. ↑ Iwata asks: New Super Mario Bros. Wii, 3
personal data
SURNAME Nakagō, Toshihiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 中 郷 俊彦 (Japanese); T. Nakazoo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese game developer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1957