Yoshio Sakamoto (坂本 賀勇, Sakamoto Yoshio, born July 23, 1959) is a Japanese video game designer working for Nintendo. He is a key member in the development of the Metroid series, having worked as director, scenario designer, and script writer for many of the games. Sakamoto grew up with Nintendo toys, which he noted to be inventive and occasionally "strange". The company hired him in 1982, when he came out of art college. His first projects at Nin...
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Yoshio Sakamoto (坂本 賀勇, Sakamoto Yoshio, born July 23, 1959) is a Japanese video game designer working for Nintendo. He is a key member in the development of the Metroid series, having worked as director, scenario designer, and script writer for many of the games. Sakamoto grew up with Nintendo toys, which he noted to be inventive and occasionally "strange". The company hired him in 1982, when he came out of art college. His first projects at Nintendo were the design of pixel art for the Game & Watch handheld Donkey Kong, and the arcade game Donkey Kong Jr. He turned to the Nintendo Entertainment System afterward, for which he designed the games Wrecking Crew, Balloon Fight and Gumshoe. Sakamoto created characters for Metroid, and helped with the game design for Kid Icarus. With the exception of Metroid and Metroid II: Return of Samus, he has directed all Metroid games produced internally by Nintendo, namely Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid: Other M. He...
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