Takashi Tezuka (手塚卓志, 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.: The Lost Levels (Assistant Director), Legend of Zelda (Graphic Designer) and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Supervisor/Advisor). 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Shigeru Miyamoto , born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese electronic game designer. ... SMB 2 title screen (Japanese version) Super Mario Bros. ... Legend of Zelda may refer to: The Legend of Zelda, the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System best seller, and the first game in a very popular, influential video game franchise. ... Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. ... Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and the second in the Legend of Zelda series of games. ... This article is about the Atlas Supervisor computer program. ... Advisor is the title of the British colonial head of administration in the Unfederated Malay States of Johor, Kelantan, Terengganu, Perlis and Kedah. ...

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, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, and again was Assistant Director to Shigeru Miyamoto for Super Mario 64. He was also Advisor/Supervisor to Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Super Mario Bros. ... A game producer is the person in charge of overseeing development of a video or computer game. ... Super Mario World ) (commonly abbreviated SMW) is a platforming video game developed by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. ... The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, released in Japan on November 21, 1991, as ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース (Zeruda no Densetsu: Kamigami no Toraifōsu, literally The Legend of Zelda: Triforce of the Gods... Super Mario 64 is a video game for the Nintendo 64. ... The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was a video game released in 1998, and the first Zelda game for the Nintendo 64. ...

Nowadays, he is responsible for running the Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development department that is responsible 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 DS (developed 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. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Nintendo EAD Tokyo. ... Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and is the official mascot of Nintendo. ... Satoru Iwata ), born December 6, 1959, is the fourth president and CEO of Nintendo succeeding to the long-standing previous president of the company, Hiroshi Yamauchi in 2002. ... Yoshis Island DS is a platforming video game developed by Nintendo and Artoon for the Nintendo DS. Published by Nintendo, it was released in North America and Australasia in November 2006,[1] and was released in Europe in December 2006. ... Artoon logo Artoon is a computer and video game third-party developer established in 1999. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... The Nintendo DS, sometimes abbreviated NDS or DS, is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo, and first released in 2004. ...

External links

• N-Sider—Takashi Tezuka profile
• Takashi Tezuka profile on MobyGames