“It’s Fun, So It’s Okay!” – Celebrating Takashi Tezuka’s Astonishing 40-Year Nintendo Career
“It’s Fun, So It’s Okay!” – Celebrating Takashi Tezuka’s Astonishing 40-Year Nintendo Career
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14 Comments
linkling1039
Bless him.
People don’t give Nintendo devs enough credit, besides Miyamoto, Sakurai and maybe Aonuma.
MutFox
I remember seeing his pictures in Nintendo Power back in the day…
As a kid I thought he was Miyamoto. 😛
IkonJobin
One of the greatest ever
PreferenceGold5167
What’s more astonishing is his role during those 40 years, unlike a lot of others he’s still directing and have a heavy hand in how the game turns out.
Miyamoto is on theme park movie and pikmin duty
And anouma has already found a successor to Zelda (he has directed totk and botw and ss)
Or at least that to my knowledge someone can correct me if I got something wrong.
ColdFusion363
Takashi Tezuka deserves all the praise.
redDKtie
“it’s fun so it’s ok” is a philosophy I wish more AAA developers would adopt
glhaynes
So grateful to get to enjoy his work!!
dustinhut13
Wow, what a legend. I didn’t know much about Tezuka before reading this but what an impressive career and legacy. I really admire the earlier Nintendo days, I had no idea they spent so much time on a different camera view for Mario. He was thinking 3-d before it was really possible.
ShonenJump121
Legend.
lerobinbot
nice
mrbuttsavage
It’s legitimately crazy that multiple people that worked on the NES Mario Bros (and Zelda) are still actively working, at the same company, and haven’t yet retired despite their careers success.
Those games came out nearly 40 years ago.
TheGoldminor
Honestly game Dev words to live by…
Toonami88
Western devs need to hear this.
htisme91
I just played Pikmin 4 and he was the producer. He is as important as Miyamoto to that company, IMO. Miyamoto had the ideas, but Tezuka knew how to make them real and fun.
14 Comments
Bless him.
People don’t give Nintendo devs enough credit, besides Miyamoto, Sakurai and maybe Aonuma.
I remember seeing his pictures in Nintendo Power back in the day…
As a kid I thought he was Miyamoto. 😛
One of the greatest ever
What’s more astonishing is his role during those 40 years, unlike a lot of others he’s still directing and have a heavy hand in how the game turns out.
Miyamoto is on theme park movie and pikmin duty
And anouma has already found a successor to Zelda (he has directed totk and botw and ss)
Or at least that to my knowledge someone can correct me if I got something wrong.
Takashi Tezuka deserves all the praise.
“it’s fun so it’s ok” is a philosophy I wish more AAA developers would adopt
So grateful to get to enjoy his work!!
Wow, what a legend. I didn’t know much about Tezuka before reading this but what an impressive career and legacy. I really admire the earlier Nintendo days, I had no idea they spent so much time on a different camera view for Mario. He was thinking 3-d before it was really possible.
Legend.
nice
It’s legitimately crazy that multiple people that worked on the NES Mario Bros (and Zelda) are still actively working, at the same company, and haven’t yet retired despite their careers success.
Those games came out nearly 40 years ago.
Honestly game Dev words to live by…
Western devs need to hear this.
I just played Pikmin 4 and he was the producer. He is as important as Miyamoto to that company, IMO. Miyamoto had the ideas, but Tezuka knew how to make them real and fun.