Masao Yamamoto

Masao Yamamoto is a former Nintendo engineer. He programmed most of the Game & Watch units along with Takehiro Izushi. Afterwards he would go on to direct some of the R&D1 titles for NES and SNES, but currently he has a mostly supportive role.

Game works

 * Donkey Kong Jr. (1982) - Programmer
 * Metroid (1986) - Director (as Yamamoto)
 * Kid Icarus (1986) - Assistant (as Massao.Y)
 * Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School (1987) - Director
 * Super Mario Land (1989) - Programmer
 * Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991) - Programmer
 * Battle Clash (1992) - Director
 * Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992) - Testing Player
 * Yoshi's Cookie (1992) - Director
 * Tetris 2 (1993) - Director
 * Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge (1993) - Super Advisor
 * Tetris & Dr. Mario (1994) - Director
 * Mario's Tennis (1995) - Director
 * Panel de Pon (1995) - Director
 * 3D Tetris (1996) - Game Coordinator
 * Tetris Attack (SNES) (1996) - Director
 * Chee-Chai Alien (2001) - Nintendo
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008) - Supervisor (Original Games)
 * Crosswords DS (2008) - Producer
 * Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (2014) - Supervisor (Original Games)

Special Thanks

 * Famicom Wars (1988)
 * Balloon Kid (1990)
 * Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (1994)
 * Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (1994)
 * Snoopy Concert (1995)
 * Galactic Pinball (1995)
 * Teleroboxer (1995)
 * Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (1996)
 * F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (2001)
 * Dr. Mario 64 (2001)
 * Advance Wars (2001)
 * Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade (2002)
 * Densetsu no Starfy (2002)
 * Nintendo Puzzle Collection (2003)
 * Fire Emblem (2003)
 * Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (2003)
 * Densetsu no Starfy 2 (2003)
 * F-Zero: GP Legend (2003)
 * Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day (2005)

Interviews

 * Iwata Asks: Game & Watch