Nintendo Interview Database

The interview database is a collection of in-house and external interviews conducted with various members of developers responsible for producing Nintendo games. There are several translated interviews previously only published in Japan that are presented to our readers by our translation staff. As with all of our sections and features, stay tuned for regular updates. Please enjoy the plethora of content and be encouraged to submit any missing translations or additional interviews to our public forums.

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Nintendo Game Development Interview

• Mario Kart 8 (Interview)
• Steel Diver: Sub Wars (Interview)

Nintendo Online Magazine Japan Interview

• 1000 Year Family (Japanese / English)
• 1080 Avalanche (Japanese / English)
• Animal Crossing: Wild World (Japanese / English)
• Balloon Fight GB (Japanese / English)
• Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Japanese / English)
• Brain-Age (Japanese / English)
• Donkey Kong: Jet Blast (Japanese / English)
• English Training DS (Japanese / English)
• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (Japanese / English)
• Game Boy Advance (Japanese / English)
• Grand Ensemble! Band Brothers (Japanese / English)
• High-Speed Card Battle: Card Hero (Japanese / English)
• Mario Kart DS (Japanese / English)
• Metroid Fusion (Japanese / English)
• Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes (Japanese / English)
• Metroid: Zero Mission (Japanese / English)
• New Super Mario Bros. (Japanese / English)
• Nintendo DS Lite (Japanese / English)
• Slide Adventure: MagKid (Japanese / English)
• Super Mario Sunshine (Japanese / English)
• Tetris DS (Japanese / English)
• The Tower SP (Japanese / English)
• Trade & Battle: Card Hero (Japanese / English)
• Wario Land 3 (Japanese / English)
• WarioWare Inc.: Mega Party Game$ (Japanese / English)
• Yoshi Touch N' Go (Japanese / English)

Nintendo 1101 Interview

• Kirby Tilt N' Tumble (Japanese / English)

Nintendo Japan Game Seminar Interview

• Nintendo Game Seminar 2005 (Japanese / English)

Nintendo Employee Corporate Interview

• Ryo Fukasawa (Japanese / English)
• Takumi Hatakeyama (Japanese / English)
• Yugo Hayashi (Japanese / English)
• Hanako Hisada (Japanese / English)
• Kenichi Ikeda (Japanese / English)
• Kimitaka Inaba (Japanse / English)
• Fumihiko Inoue (Japanese / English)
• Keiko Inoue (Japanese / English)
• Takako Ishii (Japanese / English)
• Asuka Ito (Japanese / English)
• Toshiaki Iwao (Japanese / English)
• Michiko Iwasawa (Japanese / English)
• Mitsuhiro Kida (Japanese / English)
• Akira Kinashi (Japanese / English)
• Keiko Kinoshita (Japanese / English)
• Takafumi Kiuchi (Japanese / English)
• Daiki Kojima (Japanese / English)
• Takashi Matsumoto (Japanese / English)
• Yoshihiro Matsushima (Japanese / English)
• Junichiro Miyatake (Japanese / English)
• Masato Mukai (Japanese / English)
• Takashi Murakami (Japanese / English)
• Daisuke Nakamura (Japanese / English)
• Satoshi Nakata (Japanese / English)
• Takeshi Nishikawa (Japanese / English)
• Miyako Nishio (Japanese / English)
• Takatomo Nukui (Japanese / English)
• Kazutoshi Obana (Japanese / English)
• Satoko Okada (Japanese / English)
• Toshiaki Omori (Japanese / English)
• Tetsuya Oue (Japanese / English)
• Kohei Ozeki (Japanese / English)
• Kenta Sato (Japanese / English)
• Masashi Seiki (Japanese / English)
• Yusuke Shibata (Japanese / English)
• Hirohito Shinoda (Japanese / English)
• Toshiyuki Sudo (Japanese / English)
• Akiko Suga (Japanese / English)
• Sanae Susaki (Japanese / English)
• Junichi Takatori (Japanese / English)
• Takahiro Takayama (Japanese / English)
• Kenta Tanaka (Japanese / English)
• Wataru Tanaka (Japanese / English)
• Yoko Tanaka (Japanese / English)
• Nobutaka Torigoe (Japanese / English)
• Ryo Uchida (Japanese / English)
• Junichi Usui (Japanese / English)
• Junpei Wada (Japanese / English)
• Ryoko Yamazaki (Japanese / English)

Nintendo Keyword Interview

• Koichi Kyuma - Japanese
• Naoki Kinoshita - Japanese
• Keita Tsutsui - Japanese
• Yoshikazu Hara - Japanese
• Yosuke Fujino - Japanese
• Emi Watanabe - Japanese
• Hirotake Matsushita - Japanese
• Masayuki Kimura - Japanese
• Shinji Hirose - Japanese
• Takahiro Totsu - Japanese
• Yu Sasaki - Japanese
• Genki Yokota - Japanese
• Kenji Iwata - Japanese
• Yuko Zenri - Japanese
• Satoru Hosoya - Japanese
• Kazunori Yamamoto - Japanese
• Kiyoaki Mochizuki - Japanese
• Mariko Tachibana - Japanese
• Takayuki Hama - Japanese
• Shiho Fujii - Japanese / English
• Yosuke Oshino - Japanese
• Yuichi Awata - Japanese
• Hiroshi Ueda - Japanese
• Keita Tsutsui (second interview) - Japanese
• Shingo Matsushita - Japanese
• Masayuki Okada - Japanese
• Yu Horii - Japanese
• Takafumi Aoki - Japanese
• Yuji Ichijo - Japanese
• Yusuke Inoue - Japanese
• Ryo Tanaka - Japanese
• Tomoki Segawa - Japanese
• Tetsuo Hatanaka - Japanese
• Tomofumi Ikeda - Japanese
• Yoshihiro Teraoka - Japanese
• Yusuke Soejima - Japanese
• Kotomi Jin - Japanese
• Yuki Terakura - Japanese
• Takahiro Okuda - Japanese
• Tomohiro Yamamura - Japanese
• Yosuke Morimoto - Japanese
• Shinichi Kasuno - Japanese
• Masayuki Fukuoka - Japanese
• Kensuke Kitatani - Japanese
• Junichi Yokoyama - Japanese
• Yu Yamamoto - Japanese
• Takuro Yasuda - Japanese
• Kazuhiro Tobe - Japanese
• Yukihiko Hayashi - Japanese
• Kazuhide Ueda - Japanese
• Takuya Kobayashi - Japanese
• Tomohisa Ogawa - Japanese
• Katsuma Tanaka - Japanese
• Masahiro Yoshino - Japanese
• Tatsuya Kurihara - Japanese
• Erika Abe - Japanese
• Takahiro Yamazaki - Japanese
• Koichi Hattori - Japanese
• Yosuke Fujino (second interview) - Japanese
• Junki Ikeuchi - Japanese
• Yuki Ijiri - Japanese
• Nobukatsu Nakamura - Japanese
• Yuki Hamada - Japanese
• Kazuyuki Endo - Japanese
• Tetsuji Kawamura - Japanese
• Kumpei Fujita - Japanese
• Takafumi Nishida - Japanese
• Kentaro Yuyama - Japanese
• Naoto Kubo - Japanese
• Isami Yoshida - Japanese
• Yoshiki Tateishi - Japanese
• Wenting Zao - Japanese
• Ryota Mito - Japanese
• Christophe Couderq - Japanese
• Yuki Tanaka - Japanese
• Jun Noda - Japanese
• Saeko Ishige - Japanese
• Terumasa Kato - Japanese
• Ryosuke Suzuki - Japanese
• Itteki Nakama - Japanese
• Shintaro Tokumitsu - Japanese
• Takeshi Ishida - Japanese
• Yasuaki Iwata - Japanese
• Yuta Fujita - Japanese
• Fumiyoshi Suetake - Japanese
• Makoto Ono - Japanese
• Shuhei Sugimoto - Japanese
• Shota Suzuki - Japanese
• Ami Takai - Japanese
• Yuki Taira - Japanese
• Masahiro Arata - Japanese
• Kosuke Teshima - Japanese
• Yuriko Sakai - Japanese
• Shoya Tanaka - Japanese
• Takafumi Sato - Japanese
• Sohei Hirai - Japanese
• Natsuko Yokoyama - Japanese
• Kenichi Hirose - Japanese
• Makoto Mori - Japanese
• Shoko Naka - Japanese
• Yui Fujima - Japanese
• Hiroaki Hasegawa - Japanese
• Kosuke Nagamoto - Japanese
• Sei Tanaka - Japanese
• Yoshihiro Tomizawa - Japanese
• Takaki Fujino - Japanese
• Takahisa Ikejiri - Japanese
• Shozo Hidaka - Japanese
• Shikou Yamaue - Japanese
• Toshiki Otani - Japanese
• Masashi Nishibori - Japanese
• Hidefumi Iwashita - Japanese
• Hitomi Koda - Japanese
• Hironori Saito - Japanese
• Minoru Uenaka - Japanese
• Taku Ito - Japanese
• Nagomu Sasaki - Japanese
• Hitoshi Kanetani - Japanese
• Hayato Takemoto - Japanese
• Shin Yuasa - Japanese

Iwata Asks

• Game & Watch (Japanese / English)
• Kid Icarus: Uprising (Japanese / English)
• Kiki Trick ( Japanese / English)
• Nintendo WiFi Connection ( Japanese / English)
• N.E.R.D. ( English / French )
• Rhythm Heaven Fever (Japanese / English)
• SwapNote (Japanese / English)
• WarioWare: D.I.Y (Japanese / English)
• Wii Play Motion (Japanese / English)

Glitterberri

• Dragon Quest interview with Miyamoto
• Metroid with Sakamoto
• Pokemon Gold & Silver interview
• Pokemon Gold & Silver interview 2
• Pokemon Red & Blue
• Pokemon Red & Blue 2
• Pokemon Red & Blue 3
• Pokemon Red & Blue 4
• Pokemon Red & Blue 5
• Pokemon Red & Blue 6
• The Men who Made Zelda
• Hyrule Historia
• Link's Awakening Questions
• Link's Awakening interviews
• Ocarina of Time interviews
• Koji Kondo interviews
• Bass Fishing

OTHER

• Skyward Sword postmodem
• Inside Zelda interviews from Nintendo Power