Kensuke Tanabe

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Kensuke Tanabe Kensuke Tanabe as seen in the Iwata Asks for Paper Mario: Sticker Star Born January 26 1963 Occupation at Nintendo Producer, game designer, manager, executive officer Kensuke Tanabe (田邊 賢輔) is a Japanese video game developer and producer employed by Nintendo. Tanabe, after graduating from the Visual Concept Planning Department of the Osaka University of Arts, decided to join Nintendo and was first enrolled into Nintendo EAD in 1986. One of his first assignement was developing a prototype for a vertical scrolling-focused Mario-style platformer, which would serve as the basis of Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. Tanabe currently works as the head of Nintendo SPD No. 3, a division of Nintendo focused on assisting coproductions with western developers. List of games Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic/Super Mario Bros. 2 - Director, Course design Super Mario Bros. 3 - Level design, Map design (uncredited) Donkey Kong Country - Japanese localization Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - Screenplay advisor Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - Special Thanks Super Smash Bros. - Special Thanks Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Supervisor Super Mario Strikers - Producer Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis - Producer Super Paper Mario - Producer Mario Strikers Charged - Producer Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Producer Captain Rainbow - Producer Punch-Out!! (Wii) - Producer Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! - Producer Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! - Producer Donkey Kong Country Returns - Producer Mario Kart 7 - Special Thanks Mario Party 9 - Special Thanks Paper Mario: Sticker Star - Producer Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon - Special advisor Game & Wario - Directing support, Game design (directed the Ashley and Islands minigames in cooperation with Risa Tabata) Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move - Producer Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D - Producer Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Producer Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars - Supervisor Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam - Supervisor Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge - Producer Paper Mario: Color Splash - Producer WarioWare Gold - Producer Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS) - Producer References [Edit] People Game designers Goro Abe • Stephen Dupree • Koichi Hayashida • Shigefumi Hino • Takehiko Hosokawa • Ryota Kawade • Hiroyuki Kimura • Hiroji Kiyotake • Yoshiaki Koizumi • Hideki Konno • Don Lloyd • Hirofumi Matsuoka • Gregg Mayles • Kenji Miki • Shigeru Miyamoto • Naoko Mori • Stephen Mortimer • Kenta Motokura • Ryuichi Nakada • Satoru Okada • Yoshio Sakamoto • Masahiro Sakurai • Hiroshi Sato • Taku Sugioka • Risa Tabata • Shugo Takahashi • Ko Takeuchi • Kensuke Tanabe • Takashi Tezuka • Kosuke Yabuki • Hitoshi Yamagami • Yasuhisa Yamamura • Katsuya Yamano • Gunpei Yokoi Voice actors and actresses Video games Toru Asakawa • Julien Bardakoff • Jocelyn Benford • Nate Bihldorff • Scott Burns • Pat Cashman • Jessica Chisum • David Cooke • Dan Falcone • Ashley Flannegan • Kate Fleming • Nami Funashima • David J. 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Slaughter • Shabba-Doo • Rob Stone • Andrew Trego Composers Atsuko Asahi • Daichi Aoki • Hirokazu Ando • Robin Beanland • Akira Fujiwara • Shiho Fujii • Shigetoshi Gohara • Asuka Hayazaki • Jamie Hughes • Hiroki Morishita • Grant Kirkhope • Hideki Kanazashi • Koji Kondo • Daisuke Matsuoka • Masanobu Matsunaga • Toru Minegishi • Yasunori Mitsuda • Akito Nakatsuka • Graeme Norgate • Junichi Nakatsuru • Ryo Nagamatsu • Kenta Nagata • Eveline Novakovic • James Phillipsen • Chika Sekigawa • Hiroaki Suga • Soyo Oka • Motoi Sakuraba • Ichiro Shimakura • Yoko Shimomura • Aya Tanaka • Hirokazu Tanaka • Shinobu Tanaka • Kazumi Totaka • David Wise • Hajime Wakai • Hironao Yamamoto • Hironobu Yahata • Hiroshi Yamaguchi • Mahito Yokota • Ryoji Yoshitomi Artists Kevin Bayliss • Maude Church • Jeff Griffeath • Shigefumi Hino • Vince Joly • Yoichi Kotabe • Steve Mayles • Leif Peng • Mark Stevenson‎ • Ko Takeuchi Writers Doug Booth • Ian James Corlett • Phil Harnage • David S. J. 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