Yoshio Sakamoto

Yoshio Sakamoto is a game designer who works at Nintendo. His most notible work is that on the Metroid series, where he is credited on being the director, and others. His first work on video games was with Shigeru Miyamoto and the arcade game Donkey Kong Jr. where he was designer. Soon later he directed Metroid, and every Metroid game made by Nintendo other than Metroid II: Return of Samus. He also helped out with many of the Wario games as well.