Masao Yamamoto

Masao Yamamoto Masao Yamamoto is a current employee of Nintendo Company Limited, having worked mainly in the development department during his time with the company. Yamamoto was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1955. After graduating from the University of Kyoto, he officially joined Nintendo in 1978, initially working as a software engineer for the Research & Development 1 Division. ➥ Extended Profile Yamamoto's first projects at the company were hardware programming for a variety of Game & Watch titles. Yamamoto was also involved in the complex reverse engineering of the original arcade smash Donkey Kong, that allowed the development of Donkey Kong Jr. Yamamoto's final contributions as a programmer were on the landmark Game Boy titles Super Mario Land and Metroid II: Return of Samus. Yamamoto spent the latter half of his career as project director, and later as a supervisor with several titles under his belt including Metroid, Tetris 2, Dr. Mario, Battle Clash, Yoshi's Cookie, and Tetris Attack. His Facebook can be found here.

Work History Supervisor Nintendo Co., Ltd. January 2003 - Present Developer Nintendo Co., Ltd. April 1978 - Present BS, Faculty of Engineering Science University of Kyoto Fall 1974 – Spring 1978

Notable Works Super Mario 3D Land (2011) - Support Game & Watch Collector's Edition (2010) - Supervisor Crosswords DS (2008) - Producer 3D Tetris (1996) - Supervisor Tetris Attack (SNES) (1996) - Director Panel De Pon (1995) - Director Mario's Tennis (1995) - Director Tetris & Dr. Mario (1994) - Director Tetris 2 (SNES) (1994) - Director Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge (1993) - Supervisor Tetris 2 (GB (1993) - Director Tetris 2 (NES) (1993) - Director Yoshi's Cookie (GB) (1992) - Director Yoshi's Cookie (NES) (1992) - Director Battle Clash (1992) - Director Super Scope 6 (1992) - Director Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991) - Programmer Dr. Mario (NES) (1990) - Director Dr. Mario (GB) (1990) - Director Super Mario Land (1989) - Programmer Miho Nakayama's Tokimeki High School (1987) - Director Metroid (1986) - Director Snoopy (G&W) (1983) - Programmer Donkey Kong Jr. (ARC) (1982) - Programmer Donkey Kong (G&W) (1982) - Programmer Turtle Bridge (G&W) (1982) - Programmer Parachute (G&W) (1981) - Programmer Chef (G&W) (1981) - Programmer Fire (G&W) (1980) - Programmer

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Profile: Masao Yamamoto / 山本 雅央 / やまもと まさお
Author: Kyoto Ninja
Source: Game Credits. Facebook Japan. Nintendo Japan Homepage. Kyoto Report Investigative Methods.
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