Person          Quote "The methods and strategies which I employ are the same: I use control, mood, tense, foreshadowing, and contrast. The experience of thinking something is funny, cool, or scary is about having feelings moved." — Sakamoto     ?     This article has not been classed yet.            Yoshio Sakamoto   [Edit]   [Talk]

Yoshio Sakamoto
Born	July 23, 1959 Japan
First game	Donkey Kong Jr.

Yoshio Sakamoto is a game designer who works at Nintendo. He is best known for his work on the Metroid series. His first credited video game was the successor to Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr.. Following this he worked on several classic Nintendo Entertainment System games including Metroid and Kid Icarus. He became very well known after he directed the Super Nintendo Entertainment System classic Super Metroid. He followed up on that game by heading a couple of Virtual Boy titles, only to return to the Metroid series later with Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid: Other M.

In late 2011, Sakamoto was promoted from his position as head of Software Planning and Development Group 1, to General Manager of Software Planning and Development Department of the Software Planning and Development Division. 

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