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Yoshio Sakamoto (坂本 賀勇, Sakamoto Yoshio, born July 23, 1959) is a Japanese game designer working for Nintendo. He is the co-creator of Metroid series of video games, having worked as director, scenario designer, and script writer for many of the games. Sakamoto grew up with Nintendo toys, which he noted to be inventive and occasionally "strange". The company hired him in 1982, when he came out of art college. Recruited by Shigeru Miyamoto, his first position was as designer on the team behind the arcade game Donkey Kong Jr.. He turned to the Nintendo Entertainment System afterwards, helping design Kid Icarus and directing Metroid in January 1986. Following the original Metroid, Sakamoto has directed all Metroid games produced internally by Nintendo except Metroid II: Return of Samus. These are Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, and Metroid: Zero Mission. He also supervised the production of Retro Studios's Metroid Prime series as well the upcoming Metroid: Other M which is being co-developed with Team Ninja. Sakamoto's design work is found in various other Nintendo games, including Balloon Kid (1990), Kaeru No Tame Ni Kane Wa Naru (1992, Japan only), Teleroboxer (1995), Galactic

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