Takashi Tezuka
Takashi Tezuka (born
November 17,
1960) is a video game designer for
Nintendo. His work extends far back to the original
Super Mario Bros. of which he took on the role of
Assistant Director to
Shigeru Miyamoto. He later then worked on
Super Mario Bros. 2 Lost Levels (Assistant Director),
Legend of Zelda (
Graphic Designer) and
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (
Supervisor/
Advisor).
Tezuka's first directorial debut was with
Super Mario Bros. 3, of which was supervised by Shigeru Miyamoto (
Producer). He later went on to direct
Super Mario World,
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past,
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening,
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, and again was Assistant Director to Shigeru Miyamoto for
Super Mario 64. He was also Advisor/Supervisor to
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Nowadays, he is reponsible for running the
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development department that is reponsible for major
Mario titles. In 2005 he was promoted to
General Producer of the department (as part of the internal restructuring of Nintendo, headed by
Satoru Iwata) and thus supervised all major Mario titles within Nintendo, including outsourced projects such as
Yoshi's Island 2 (which is under development by
Artoon). He is still busy with design work despite his promotion, as he was one of the designers for
New Super Mario Bros for the
Nintendo DS.
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