, born December 21, 1960, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan) is a game designer for Nintendo and has been a part of the history of Nintendo since 1983.
Education Kiyotake graduated from Kyoto Seika University with a BA of Visual Design and was part of the rugby club.
Career Kiyotake started his employment at Nintendo in 1983, working in the Nintendo Research & Development 1 and Product Engineering Departments, and is currently a member of the Planning and Development Department.
Game design Metroid Hiroji was a designer for Metroid, which was originally designed for the Famicom Disk System. Hiroji is the character designer of Samus Aran and named the Metroid character after Pelé, but he later found out that Pelé's full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, not Samus Arantes. Hiroji and Yoshio Sakamoto and the rest of the team decided at the end of Metroid to reveal that Samus was a female character, making Samus Aran one of the first female protagonists in a video game.
Wario series
Kiyotake is the original designer of Mario's rival WarioFamicom Disk System: The More You Play It, the More You'll Want to Play [Disk 1], Nintendo Dream, Vol. 118. (Translation available at ) and one of the key people in the Wario series. Kiyotake and Takehiko Hosokawa were the directors and graphic designers of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins and Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3.Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins official Shogakukan game guide (translation provided by "Shmuplations", accessed September 10, 2016) For Virtual Boy Wario Land, he acted as a director, and for Wario games released after Wario Land 4, his role is mostly limited to the Wario design and advising, according to the staff credits of the respective games. During the development of Wario: Master of Disguise, Kiyotake supervised the numerous forms of disguised Wario designed by SUZAK.
Games Year Title Role1983 Pinball (Game & Watch) Graphic Designer1984 Bassmate Computer Designer Duck Hunt Graphic designer Wrecking Crew 1986 Metroid Character designer Kid Icarus Assistant1988 Famicom Wars Graphic designer1989 Tennis (Game Boy) 1990 Dr. Mario 1991 Metroid II: Return of Samus Director, graphic designer1992 Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins 1994Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 Wario Blast Graphic designer Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! 1995Virtual Boy Wario Land Director1997Excitebike: Bun Bun Mario Battle StadiumTechnical Support1998 Wario Land 2 Character Designer Tetris DX Director2000Wario Land 3 Graphic designer2001 Wario Land 4 2003 Wario World Advisor2007Wario: Master of Disguise Wario supervisor Zekkyō Senshi SakebureinSupervisor2010 Metroid: Other M Concept Art
Interviews Super Mario Land 2 - 1992 Developer Interview (Shmuplations)
Metroid Developer Interview - NES Classic Edition
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