Yoshiaki Koizumi

Yoshiaki Koizumi was born in 1968 and graduated from the Osaka University of Arts in Visual Concept Planning. He started at Nintendo doing artwork and manual design for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Mario Kart before moving on to larger roles on Yoshi's Island and Super Mario 64. Koizumi started co-directing titles with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask before he returned to the Mario team to co-direct Super Mario Sunshine. After Super Mario Sunshine, Koizumi became involved with the creation of the EAD Tokyo Studio and directed both Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat and Super Mario Galaxy. Recently, he produced the free DSiWare application Flipnote Studio and served as a producer on Super Mario Galaxy 2.

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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (2014)

Developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo for WiiU

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Susume! Kinopio Taichou in Japan) is a puzzle/platform game curently being developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo exclusively for the Wii U.

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Super Mario 3D World (2013)

Developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo for WiiU

Super Mario 3D World is the first 3D mario game for the Wii U. The game draws heavily from its predecessor Super Mario 3D Land. It will feature up to four player simultaneous co-op with Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and Toad. Each character will have different traits when played such as Princess Peach being able to float similar to in Super Mario Bros. 2.

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Super Mario 3D Land (2011)

Developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo for 3DS

Super Mario 3D Land is a platform game in the Mario series developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo for the Nintendo 3DS.

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010)

Developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo, Nintendo Software Technology for Wii

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a platform game developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo, Nintendo Software Technology and released on Wii.

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Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (2004)

Developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo for NGC, Wii

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is a platform game developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo and released on GameCube, Wii.

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