Hideki Konno

Hideki Konno is a video game designer working for Nintendo. He's worked on various triple A titles such as the games in the Mario Kart series, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Nintendogs, Ice Hockey, Lugigi's Mansion and various other video games.

History
At the age of sixteen Hideki Konno became interested in personal computers, messing around with Japanese PC's and the Apple II. He became intrigued with video games after playing around with some of Apple II's titles. After purchasing the Famicom in Japan, he decided that he wanted to create video games and after graduating headed to Nintendo to try and get a job.

He explains that the games he's worked on during the age of the NES and SNES hold a special significance to him because of the strife that was involved while making them and the new discoveries that he made. He says that his favorite part of development is when all of the ideas of the team come together when the game is nearly finished.

List of games
A list of his games in chronological order. Because most NES games didn't feature credits, his full list of titles made on that console is unknown.


 * Ice Hockey - NES, director
 * Super Mario Bros. 2 - NES, assistant director
 * Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES, assistant director
 * Super Mario World - SNES, map director
 * Super Mario Kart - SNES, director
 * Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - SNES, director
 * Mario Kart 64 - Nintendo 64, director
 * Yoshi's Story - Nintendo 64, system director
 * F-Zero X - Nintendo 64, adviser
 * Mario Kart Super Circuit - Game Boy Advance, supervisor
 * Luigi's Mansion - GameCube, director
 * The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - GameCube, supervisor
 * 1080° Avalanche - GameCube, special thanks
 * Nintendogs - Nintendo DS, producer
 * Geist - GameCube, producer
 * Mario Kart DS - Nintendo DS, producer
 * Mario Kart Wii - Wii, producer