Yoshiaki Koizumi

From the Super Mario Wiki, the Mario encyclopedia
Jump to navigationJump to search
Yoshiaki Koizumi
Yoshiaki Koizumi
Born April 29, 1968
Occupation at Nintendo Video Game producer, director and designer

Yoshiaki Koizumi (in Japanese: 小泉 歓晃; born April 29, 1968) is the director of Super Mario Sunshine, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and Super Mario Galaxy. He also worked on significant contributions to other major Mario games, such as Super Mario Kart, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, and Super Mario 64, but under different roles.

Since 2013, Yoshiaki Koizumi works as a director for 1-UP Studio[1].

Yoshiaki Koizumi plays an important role during E3 2019's Nintendo Direct presentation, announcing Bowser as the new president of Nintendo's North American branch. Bowser, King of the Koopas, appears onscreen, proud to hear his name. Yoshiaki Kozumi says the Koopa King is the wrong "Bowser", as Doug Bowser walks onscreen, much to the former Bowser's shock and confusion.

Nintendo Power interview[edit]

Nintendo Power interviewed Yoshiaki in a special section mainly for Super Mario Galaxy. In the interview, he revealed the following facts about the development of the game:

  • Yoshiaki had wanted to always create a boss fight in which the character had to climb up on top of the boss. He tried to create Ganondorf this way in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time but decided the fight would be too difficult. Later, in Super Mario Galaxy, he was able to try this concept again with the boss Megaleg.
  • Yoshiaki wanted to create more missions in which Luigi had to be found by Mario, but ran out of time and scrapped them.
  • Yoshiaki was the writer of Rosalina's Story in Galaxy. He wrote the story at night, without anybody knowing what he was doing. The following day, he presented the story to Shigeru Miyamoto, who was surprised when Yoshiaki told him nobody knew about it.
    • Yoshiaki also states that he would like Rosalina's story to be made into a real children's book.

List of works[edit]

Gallery[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Corporate outline page on 1-Up Studio's official website
  2. ^ Iwata, Satoru et al. Iwata Asks: Super Mario Galaxy. Nintendo. Retrieved February 24, 2015
[Edit]
People
Game designers Goro Abe • Stephen Dupree • Koichi Hayashida • Shigefumi Hino • Takehiko Hosokawa • Toshiharu Izuno • 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 • Kenta Usui • Kosuke Yabuki • Hitoshi Yamagami • Yasuhisa Yamamura • Katsuya Yamano • Gunpei Yokoi
Voice actors and actresses Video games Toru Asakawa • Julien Bardakoff • Jocelyn Benford • Justin Berti • Nate Bihldorff • Edward Bosco • Scott Burns • Alejandra Cazares • Jessica Chisum • David Cooke • Robbie Daymond • Dan Falcone • Ashley Flannegan • Kate Fleming • Nami Funashima • David J. Goldfarb • Marc Graue • Todd Haberkorn • Dean Harrington • Kit Harris • Kyle Hebert • Kate Higgins • Ryan Higgins • Michelle Hippe • Hitomi Hirose • Nobuyuki Hiyama • John Hulaton • Kelsey Hutchison • Melissa Hutchison • Eriko Ibe • Kenneth W. James • Kerri Kane • Samantha Kelly • Grant Kirkhope • Yuki Kodaira • Shohei Komatsu • Asako Kozuki • Erica Lindbeck • Dex Manley • Jeff Manning • Isaac Marshall • Charles Martinet • Tomoko Maruno • Atsushi Masaki • Carlee McManus • Nicole Mills • Lani Minella • Masato Mizuta • Tsuguo Mogami • Tadd Morgan • Deanna Mustard • Takashi Nagasako • Zoe Nelson • Eric Newsome • Christine Peyser • Griffin Puatu • Dolores Rogers • Mercedes Rose • Ronald B. Ruben • Caety Sagoian • Masahiro Sakurai • Kahoru Sasajima • Tyler Shamy • Stephanie Sheh • Go Shinomiya • Laura Faye Smith • Thomas Spindler • Chris Sutherland • Sanae Suzaki • Katsumi Suzuki • Leslie Swan • Motoki Takagi • Jen Taylor • Owen Thomas • Kazumi Totaka • Vegas Trip • Toshihide Tsuchiya • Satsuki Tsuzumi • Mike Vaughn • Cristina Vee • Fryda Wolff • Natsuko Yokoyama
Cartoons Lou Albano • Harvey Atkin • Walker Boone • Bart Braverman • Donald Burda • Ben Campbell • Peter Cullen • Damon D'Oliveira • Jeannie Elias • Toru Furuya • Dan Hennessey • Gordon Masten • Tracey Moore • Greg Morton • James Rankin • Tony Rosato • Andrew Sabiston • Tabitha St. Germain • Michael Stark • John Stocker • Stuart Stone • Judy Strangis • Tara Strong • Milton "Soupy Sales" Supman • Aron Tager • Joy Tanner • Louise Vallance • Milli Vanilli • Frank Welker • Danny Wells • Richard Yearwood
Actors and actresses Lou Albano • Jason Bateman • Joe Bellan • Harry Blackstone Jr. • Brian Bonsall • Christopher Collins • Nicole Eggert • Dennis Hopper • David Horowitz • Bob Hoskins • Ernie Hudson • Magic Johnson • Jim Lange • Cyndi Lauper • John Leguizamo • Pam Matteson • Alyssa Milano • Mojo Nixon • Patrick Pinney • Rowdy Roddy Piper • Sgt. Slaughter • Shabba-Doo • Rob Stone • Andrew Trego • Danny Wells
Composers and sound engineers Toshiki Aida • Shinobu Amayake • Hirokazu Ando • Daichi Aoki • Atsuko Asahi • Yasuhisa Baba • Taro Bando • Robin Beanland • Shiho Fujii • Akira Fujiwara • Shigetoshi Gohara • Minako Hamano • Asuka Hayazaki • Jamie Hughes • Tadashi Ikegami • Masayoshi Ishi • Yasuaki Iwata • Takeru Kanazaki • Hideki Kanazashi • Yukio Kaneoka • Grant Kirkhope • Takashi Koiwa • Koji Kondo • Naoto Kubo • Masanobu Matsunaga • Daisuke Matsuoka • Toru Minegishi • Naoko Mitome • Yasunori Mitsuda • Hiroki Morishita • Ryo Nagamatsu • Kenta Nagata • Shinobu Nagata • Akito Nakatsuka • Kenichi Nishimaki • Graeme Norgate • Eveline Novakovic • Soyo Oka • Shinya Ohtouge • James Phillipsen • Motoi Sakuraba • Lawrence Schwedler • Yoshito Sekigawa • Ichiro Shimakura • Yoko Shimomura • Nobuyoshi Suzuki • Aya Tanaka • Hirokazu Tanaka • Kazumi Totaka • Yuka Tsujiyoko • David Wise • Hajime Wakai • Hironobu Yahata • Mahito Yokota • Chad York • Ryoji Yoshitomi
Artists Kevin Bayliss • Maude Church • Jeff Griffeath • Shigefumi Hino • Vince Joly • Yoichi Kotabe • Steve Mayles • Shigehisa Nakaue • Leif Peng • Mark Stevenson‎ • Ko Takeuchi
Writers Doug Booth • Véronique Chantel • Ian James Corlett • Phil Harnage • David S. J. Hodgson • Andrew Iverson • Leigh Loveday • Perry Martin • Peter Sauder • Ed Solomon • Erika Strobel • Michael Teitelbaum‎ • Tracey West • Ted Woolsey
Historical figures Abraham Lincoln • Albert Einstein • Anne Hathaway • Aristotle • Benjamin Franklin • Bill Gates • Booker T. Washington • Catherine Dickens • Charles Dickens • Charles-Gaspard de la Rive • Cleopatra • Constanze Mozart • Deborah Read • Duke of Alençon • Edmund Halley • Ferdinand Magellan • Francis Drake • Frederick Douglass • Galileo Galilei • George Washington Carver • Henry Ford • Ho Ti • Isaac Newton • Joan of Arc • Johann Gutenberg • Joseph Haydn • Juan Sebastian Del Cano • Julius Caesar • Kublai Khan • Leonardo da Vinci • Louis Pasteur • Ludwig van Beethoven • Mahatma Gandhi • Marco Polo • Mary Todd Lincoln • Michael Faraday • Michelangelo Buonarroti • Minamoto no Yoritomo • Pierre Paul Emile Roux • Plato • Queen Elizabeth I • Raphael Sanzio • Richard Burbage • Royal Society • Sarah Barnard • Thomas Edison • Thomas Jefferson • Ts'ai Lun • William Shakespeare • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Other Dayvv Brooks • Reggie Fils-Aimé • Doug Bowser • Shuntaro Furukawa • David Grenewetzki • John Grusd • Andy Heyward • Satoru Iwata • Michael Kelbaugh • Tatsumi Kimishima • Chris Meledandri • Howard Phillips • Michelle Powers • Bill Trinen • Hiroshi Yamauchi
Retrieved from "https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=Yoshiaki_Koizumi&oldid=3186003"