Yoshiaki Koizumi

Yoshiaki Koizumi (Japanese小泉 歓 晃, Yoshiaki Koizumi born April 29, 1968 in Mishima, Japan) is a Japanese game developer and has been working since 1991 with the company Nintendo in the production of several well-known video games, including titles of the series Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda. He was later held various management positions as director or producer. He leads a team in the development department EAD Tokyo.

Biography

Koizumi was born on 29 April 1968 in Mishima, Japan. After graduating from film, drama and animation at the Osaka University of Arts, he has been employed by Nintendo in 1991. His first project was the design and later writing the Instructions for the published in the same year, Super Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past; This also included the design of the back story. For the published 1993 Gameboy successor The Legend of Zelda: Link 's Awakening Koizumi was initially provided for the writing of the manual. Since at this time the plot was still largely open, Koizumi was given the task of designing the entire script and the behavior of each boss. For the Nintendo 64 console, it was his development of the game Super Mario 64 ( as Assistant Director), The Legend of Zelda: Majora 's Mask part: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda. For the latter title he invented about multiple interactions of the toy figure with other figures.

In 2003, Koizumi its location to a new development team in Tokyo, where he - as before that for the first time in Super Mario Sunshine - directing the development of the GameCube title Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat headed. In the development of the published 2007 Wii game Super Mario Galaxy, he held the role of Director and was - as an interface between the team and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto - responsible for every aspect of game development. For the successor, who also appeared for the Wii console in 2010, he took over the job of the producer.

Yoshiaki Koizumi puts an emphasis on the story told, which is not shared by Shigeru Miyamoto in the development of games.

The website IGN named Koizumi on 25th place in a list of the 100 best games creator.

Creation

Yoshiaki Koizumi was involved in the development of the following video games.

  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past ( published in 1991 for Super Nintendo )
  • Super Mario Kart (1992, Super Nintendo )
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link 's Awakening (1993, Gameboy )
  • Super Mario 64 (1996, Nintendo 64)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998, Nintendo 64)
  • Super Smash Bros. (1999, Nintendo 64)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora 's Mask (2000, Nintendo 64)
  • Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002, GameCube )
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002, GameCube )
  • Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat (2004, GameCube )
  • Super Mario Galaxy (2007, Wii)
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010, Wii)
  • Super Mario 3D Land (2011, 3DS)

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