Takashi Tezuka

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Takashi Tezuka, circa 2010.

Takashi Tezuka (手塚 卓志), is a video game designer and producer best known for his work on the Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda franchises.

Tezuka was born in 1960-11-17 in Osaka, Japan. He graduated from the Design Department of Osaka University of Arts, and was hired at Nintendo in April of 1984. Shortly after being hired, Tezuka was teamed up with Shigeru Miyamoto to work on two of their most seminal games; Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. In his early years, he went by the alias "Ten Ten." By the late 1990s, Tezuka began working as a supervisor or producer on most titles. Tezuka continues to work for Nintendo to this day as the executive officer of Nintendo EPD and has been involved, in some capacity, in over 100 titles.

Though I didn't know who Takashi Tezuka was in the 1980s, I was very familiar with his work, having been a big fan of pretty much every game he was involved with. It was only until years later when the Internet helped track down the real names behind the aliases in the early games, was I able to understand his full impact on my early game appreciation. While it's still difficult to suss out precisely what he did in each game, he has not doubt helped shaped the course of video games.

Gameography

This gameography is far from complete.

Title Released Roles
Devil World 1984-10-05 Staff
Excitebike 1984-11-30 Graphics
Super Mario Bros. 1985-09-13 Assistant Director, Graphics
The Legend of Zelda 1986-02-21 Director, Designer
Super Matio Bros. 2 (Japan) 1986-06-03 Director, Game Designer
Yume Kōjō: Dokidoki Panic 1987-07-10 Meddler
Super Mario Bros. 2 1988-10-?? Motion Designers
Super Mario Bros. 3 1988-10-23 Director, Game Designer, Level Designer, Character Designer
Super Mario World 1990-11-21 Lead Director
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 1991-11-21 Director
Super Mario All-Stars 1993-07-14 Director
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening 1993-06-06 Director
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island 1995-08-05 Director
Tetris Attack 1996-08-?? Design Adviser
Super Mario 64 1996-06-23 Assistant Director,

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