Eiji Aonuma (青沼 英二, Aonuma Eiji, born 1963) is a Japanese video game designer and video game director. He currently works for Nintendo, and has overseen several installments in The Legend of Zelda series of video games.
Aonuma attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in design, working on moving mechanical figures (whose members were articulated), which were essentially marionettes. He graduated in 1988 and t...
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Eiji Aonuma (青沼 英二, Aonuma Eiji, born 1963) is a Japanese video game designer and video game director. He currently works for Nintendo, and has overseen several installments in The Legend of Zelda series of video games.
Aonuma attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in design, working on moving mechanical figures (whose members were articulated), which were essentially marionettes. He graduated in 1988 and then acquired his job at Nintendo, with whom he has remained since.
Aonuma began work on the Super Famicom game Marvelous: Mouhitotsu no Takarajim, which was only released in Japan and was influenced by The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and had two spin-offs, BS Marvelous: Camp Arnold and BS Marvelous: Time Athletic, both released exclusively for the now-defunct Satellaview. Aonuma was enlisted by Shigeru Miyamoto to work on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64, where he was responsible for designing the games...
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