Masahiro Sakurai

Masahiro Sakurai is most known for creating Kirby and the Super Smash Bros. series.

Life at HAL
Masahiro Sakurai started working at HAL Laboratory where he created Kirby at 19 years of age.He continued working there till August 5 2003, which made many believe that the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series would no longer be made. He resigned seeking more freedom and not happy with the structure of HAL, but also the sequelization of the industry.

After HAL
After leaving HAL, Sakurai began working with Q Entertainment with Tetsuya Muzuguchi, which resulted in the game Meteos, a game for the Nintendo DS.

On September 2005, he announced his own company, Sora, in which they have completed there first game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, with support form other companies.He updated the Brawl site, Super Smash Bros Dojo, with information about the game and also has a column in Famitsu magazine.

Director/Designer

 * Kirby Air Ride - GameCube
 * Kirby Super Star - SNES
 * Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land - GBA
 * Kirby's Adventure - NES
 * Kirby's Dream Land - Game Boy
 * Kirby's Pinball Land - Game Boy
 * Meteos - DS
 * Sodatete! Konchuu Ousha Mushi King - A LCD Game
 * Super Smash Bros. - Nintendo 64
 * Super Smash Bros. Melee- GameCube
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Wii

Other

 * Arcana - SNES - received Special Thanks
 * Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi - GBA - received a Special Thanks
 * Kirby & the Amazing Mirror - GBA - credited with Overseeing its progress
 * Meteos: Disney Magic - DS - received credit for the original concept of Meteos.
 * Kirby Series and Brawl - Voice actor of King Dedede