Takehiko Hosokawa

Takehiko Hosokawa is a game designer employed by Nintendo since 1991. A veteran of Nintendo R&D1 and its successor Nintendo SPD1, he has been heavily involved in the Wario Land and Metroid series.

Games credited

 * Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins - Co-director, assistant character designer
 * Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 - Director, Graphic Designer
 * Virtual Boy Wario Land - Graphic design
 * Tetris Attack - Graphic design (Game Boy version)
 * Wario Land II - Director
 * Wario Land 3 - Director
 * Wario Land 4 - Designer
 * WarioWare: Touched! - Game Designer, Design, Character Voice
 * Game & Wario - Assistant Director, Game Design

Quotes

 * I only joined Nintendo a year and a half ago [early 1991], and this was the first game I was really allowed to do some solid work on. I started out as an assistant character designer, but by the end, I was sort of half a Director.