Tadashi_Sugiyama

Tadashi Sugiyama

Tadashi Sugiyama

Japanese video game designer (born 1959)

Tadashi Sugiyama (杉山 直, Sugiyama Tadashi, born April 15, 1959) is a Japanese video game designer and producer who works for Nintendo. Sugiyama joined the company in 1983, and served as one of the original young design staff for Nintendo's creative department. Sugiyama contributed graphic design to several games and worked with several notable Nintendo staff, including Mario series creator Shigeru Miyamoto and former president Satoru Iwata. Sugiyama originally worked as a graphic designer and character artist on several early Famicom titles. One of his early famous creations were the character designs of Popo and Nana from Ice Climber.[1] Sugiyama went on to co-direct Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Sugiyama was also one of the central designers working on Miyamoto's GBA-GCN Connectivity experiments, most of which never saw release.[2]

Quick Facts Born, Occupation(s) ...

Works

More information Year, Title ...

Interviews

References

  1. [1]
    "Developer Interview, Volume 4". Nintendo. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  2. [2]
    Nintendo Power #244 Wii Fit Plus Feature
  3. [3]
    "Baseball for NES (1983)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  4. [4]
    "Iwata Asks: Updating the Graphics". Retrieved 2022-12-13.
Stub icon

This Nintendo-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This biographical article relating to a video game specialist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Tadashi_Sugiyama, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.