Hideki Konno

Hideki Konno
Nintendo Company Limited EAD Software Group
Born	(1965-05-13) May 13, 1965 Chiba, Chiba, Japan
Occupation	EAD Manager, Producer Game Designer
Employer	Nintendo (1983-Present)
Website
www.nintendo.co.jp

Hideki Konno (紺野 秀樹, Konno Hideki) was born May 13, 1965 in Chiba, Japan and graduated from the Electronic Data Processing Department of Japan Electronics College. Konno joined Nintendo in 1986, realizing his dream after a long adoration of playing Famicom games. Konno began working as a graphic designer on a variety of Nintendo games including the Super Mario Bros. series with Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.

Hideki Konno is the development head of Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No. 1. He is notable for being one of the main designers of the Super Mario and Mario Kart series of games.^[1][2]

Works

• Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987) — Assistant Director, Game Designer
• Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988) — Assistant Director, Game Designer
• Ice Hockey (1988) — Director
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988) — Assistant Director, Character Designer
• Super Mario World (1990) — Map Director
• SimCity (1990) — Director
• Super Mario Kart (1992) — Director
• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995) — Director
• Mario Kart 64 (1996) — Director
• Yoshi's Story (1997) — Director
• F-Zero X (1998) — Advisor
• Mario Kart: Super Circuit (2001) — Supervisor
• Luigi's Mansion (2001) — Director
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2003) — Supervisor
• Nintendogs (2005) — Producer
• Mario Kart DS (2005) — Producer
• Mario Kart Wii (2008) — Producer
• Nintendogs + Cats (2011) — Producer
• Mario Kart 7 (2011) — Producer
• Mario Kart 8 (2014) — Producer

Interviews

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• Iwata Asks: Mario Kart Wii - Development Staff Interview

References