Hiroyuki Kimura

Hiroyuki Kimura (木村 浩之, Kimura Hiroyuki^?) was born June 6, 1965 in Ishikawa, Japan. Kimura was originally assigned to Gunpei Yokoi and the famous Nintendo R&D1 team. Kimura designed a variety of games for Nintendo including several of the NES Zapper software and the Metroid series. Shortly after working on Super Metroid, Kimura was transferred to Shigeru Miyamoto and the Nintendo EAD group. ^{[1] [2]}

Kimura is the development head of Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No. 4. He is notable for being one of the main designers of the Super Mario Advance and Metroid series of games.^[3]

Works

• Metroid - Designer (NES, 1986)
• Metroid 2 - Director (GB, 1991)
• Super Metroid - Designer (SNES, 1993)
• Wave Race 64 - Designer (N64, 1996)
• Mario Artist: Talent Studio - Director (N64, 2000)
• Super Mario Advance - Director (GBA, 2001)
• Mario Kart: Super Circuit - Supervisor (GBA, 2001)
• Super Mario Advance 2 - Director (GBA, 2001)
• Super Mario Advance 3 - Director (GBA, 2002)
• Super Mario Advance 4 - Director (GBA, 2003)
• Yoshi Touch & Go - Director (NDS, 2005)
• Big Brain Academy - Producer (NDS, 2006)
• New Super Mario Bros. - Producer (NDS, 2006)
• Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree - Producer (Wii, 2007)
• New Play Control: Pikmin - Producer (Wii, 2008)
• New Play Control: Pikmin 2 - Producer (Wii, 2009)
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Producer (Wii, 2009)

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