Welcome to my profiles section here you will find profiles of famous video game legends and employees at video game companies like Nintendo.
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Nintendo employees

Nintendo of Japan

Presidents and Families

Info about all the Presidents of Nintendo and their relatives. (The current Nintendo president is Hiroshi Yamauchi).

The Yamauchi family tree (image map!)
The Yamuchi family tree
Click on the names to get more information.
Note: this is NOT the complete tree

The R&D Teams

Yamauchi divided his staff into 4 different teams and then made them
compete against each other to be the ones who produced the best games! Hiroshi never told the teams what to create so they had free hands to create what every they wanted!
(From the beginning there were only one R&D team lead by Gunpei Yokoi)

The R&D1 Team

The R&D1 team lead by Gunpei Yokoi has for example designed the Game Boy and the Virtual Boy. Metroid (the first game with a female hero?!) and Kid Icarus has alos come from the R&D1 team. They were described as "a band of samurai" operating in silence with less recognition that the other teams.

Gunpei Yokoi
The man behind the Game Boy and the Game&Watch games.

The R&D2 Team

This Team was lead by Masayuki Uemura and has been behind much of the hardware. Uemura's team was often assigned all sorts of top secret projects. 65 people worked under Uemura.

Masayuki Uemura
The leader of the R&D2 team.

The R&D3 Team

This 20 people team lead by Takeda Genyo was responsible for much of the technical stuffs like the bank switching and later the many MMC chips just to mention some things. The team has also done games like Star Tropics etc. Takeda's team nicknamed "Rumania" had a motto "There are no limitations, no boundaries; since were're on our own there's nothing we can't do; when you start with nothing you can do everything"! This team is isolated from the other teams and can be described as a band of "otakus" (computer hackers and nerds).

Takeda Genyo
The leader of the R&D1 team

The R&D4 Team

3 years after the release of Nintendo's first real smash hit Donkey Kong in 1981 Shigeru Miyamoto got his own R&D team. This team called "Jojo Kaihatsu" or the "entertainment division" only has one assignment: to come up with the best and most imaginative games ever and as we all know they have! 

Shigeru Miyamoto
The man behind Mario

Other employees

All the other employee as Nintendo like the ingenious musician Koji Kondo.

Koji Kondo
He has written the Mario and Zelda music!

Hiroshi Imanisha
The man who has overseen most of Hiroshi Yamauchi's projects.

Nintendo of America

Staff

Minoru Arakawa
Minoru was president at Nintendo of America from the start in 1980 until 1994 when Howard Lincoln took over.
More info soon!

Howard Lincoln
Howard Lincoln is the present president at Nintendo of America and took over after Mr. Arakawa in 1994.

Peter T Main
Peter is the marketing boss at Nintendo of America.

Square Employees

Hirobi Sakaguchi
The founder of Square.

Hironbo Sakaguchi
The producer of all the Final Fantasy games. Squares mega project Chrono Trigger was a product of the co-operation between Hironbu and Akira Toriyama and Yuji Horii.

Yoshitaka Amano
A Japanese Illustrator and Character Designer that has designed characters in many of Squares titles, for example the very first Final Fantasy game.

Nobuo Uematsu
Nobuo started at Square in 1986. He has made the music for all the Final Fantasy games and is the first to have his peaces on the Japanese hit list. He has done all the great tunes for FF2 and FF3 which both have been released in improved versions on CD in Japan.

Musicians

Koji Kondo the man who has made all the great tunes for all the Mario and Zelda games.

Nobuo Uematsu The ace who has done all the fantastic tunes for the Final Fantasy games.

Chris Hülsbeck A musician who has done music for the Turrican and R-type games.

Tim Follin has done music for the Ghouls n Ghost games and Rock n Roll Racing.

Others

Jez San
The boss at Argonaut and the man who invented the SFX-chip. Click here for a picture of him.

Kagemasa Kouzuki
The one who founded Konami.

Akira Toriyama
Designer of the Dragon Quest -series and the creator of the in Japan hugely popular Dragonball phenomena. Him, Yuji Horii and Hironbu Sakaguchi was the trio that created Squares great RPG Chrono Trigger.

Yuji Horii
The author of the Dragon Quest series. Him, Akira Toriyama and Hironbu Sakaguchi was the trio that created Squares great RPG Chrono Trigger.

 

 

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