Takashi Tezuka

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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 (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, , , , and again was Assistant Director to Shigeru Miyamoto for Super Mario 64. He was also Advisor/Supervisor to .

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.

External links

[N-Sider]—Takashi Tezuka profile
[Takashi Tezuka] profile on MobyGames

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