Hideki Konno

Hideki Konno
Nintendo Company Limited EAD Software Group
Born	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) (born May 13, 1965) is a graphic designer on a variety of Nintendo video games, including the Super Mario Bros. series, with Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. He joined Nintendo in 1986 after graduating from the Electronic Data Processing at the Department of Japan Electronics College, realizing his dream after a long adoration of playing Famicom games.

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

• Iwata Asks: Mario Kart Wii - Development Staff Interview

References

1. Iwata Asks: Mario Kart Wii
2. N-Sider Looks At Nintendo Development

External links

• Hideki Konno at Nintendo Miiverse