Yoshio Sakamoto facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Yoshio Sakamoto
坂本 賀勇
Sakamoto at the 2010 Game Developers Conference
Born	(1959-07-23) July 23, 1959 (age 65) Nara Prefecture, Japan
Alma mater	Osaka University of Arts
Occupation	Video game designer, director, producer
Years active	1982–present
Employer	Nintendo
Notable work	Metroid Famicom Detective Club WarioWare Rhythm Heaven
Title	Manager at Nintendo SPD Production Group No. 1 (2004-2012) Deputy Manager at Nintendo SPD (2012-2015) Senior Officer at Nintendo EPD (2015-present)

Yoshio Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 賀勇, Hepburn: Sakamoto Yoshio) (born July 23, 1959) is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. He has worked at Nintendo since 1982. He is famous for directing many games in the Metroid series. He is one of the most important people from Nintendo's old Research and Development 1 team.

Yoshio Sakamoto's Journey in Gaming

Sakamoto is a very important person in making the Metroid game series. When he was a kid, he loved Nintendo toys because they were so creative. Nintendo hired him in 1982 after he finished art college.

Early Game Design Work

His first jobs at Nintendo were designing pixel art. He worked on the Game & Watch handheld game Donkey Kong. He also worked on the arcade game Donkey Kong Jr.. After that, he started working on games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. He designed games like Wrecking Crew, Balloon Fight, and Gumshoe.

Sakamoto also wrote the stories and created the first two Famicom Detective Club games. These games were very popular visual novels in Japan in the 1980s.

Creating Iconic Characters and Games

Sakamoto helped create characters for the first Metroid game. He was also a game designer for Kid Icarus. He directed many popular Metroid games, including:

• Super Metroid
• Metroid Fusion
• Metroid: Zero Mission
• Metroid: Other M

He was also the producer for Metroid: Samus Returns and Metroid Dread. Sakamoto's design work can also be seen in other Nintendo games. These include Balloon Kid (from 1990), Game & Watch Gallery (from 1997), Wario Land 4 (from 2001), and the fun WarioWare series.

Sakamoto's Design Philosophy

Sakamoto wants to make games that are as unique as the Nintendo toys he played with as a child. He thinks WarioWare, Inc. is a good example of this idea. He also believes his job is not to compete with fellow Nintendo producer Shigeru Miyamoto. Instead, he wants to "always come up with something very different" from what Miyamoto might create.

Games Yoshio Sakamoto Worked On

Here is a list of some of the games Yoshio Sakamoto has worked on:

See also

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