Hideki Konno

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.

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
• Super Mario Run (2016) – Map Director

Interviews

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• Iwata Asks: Mario Kart Wii - Development Staff Interview

References

External links

• Hideki Konno at Nintendo Miiverse