Kentaro Nishimura

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Kentaro Nishimura is an employee of Nintendo. Initially he worked as a supervisor and director on various titles, including the Fire Emblem and Advance Wars series, and later he produced some other titles.

In recent years he has been involved in product testing, first on the Mario Club and later in Nintendo of America.

Game Production History

• Tetris Attack (GB) (1996) - Assistant (Japanese Version)
• Game Boy Camera (1998) - Coordinator, Sound Composer
• Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 (1999) - Super Advisor
• Pokémon Puzzle Challenge (2000) - Graphic Design
• Chee-Chai Alien (2001) - Nintendo
• Advance Wars (2001) - Supervisor
• Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001) - Original Game Staff (Supervisor: Fire Emblem)
• Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade (2002) - Supervisor
• Nintendo Puzzle Collection (2003) - Director, Artist (Panel de Pon)
• Fire Emblem (2003) - Director
• Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (2003) - Director
• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (2004) - Director
• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (2005) - Supervisor
• Advance Wars: Dual Strike (2005) - Director
• Odama (2006) - Project Management (Japanese Version)
• Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast (2007) - Producer
• Glory of Heracles (2008) - Assistant Producer
• Ando Kensaku (2010) - Game Design, Producer
• Fire Emblem: Awakening (2012) - Debug
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (2012) - Debug
• Pokémon Rumble U (2013) - Debug Management
• New Super Luigi U (2013) - Testing
• Pikmin 3 (2013) - Testing
• The Wonderful 101 (2013) - Debug
• Wii Party U (2013) - Debug
• Mario Kart 8 (2014) - Debug
• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U (2014) - Testing
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars (2015) - Testing & Quality Assurance
• Mario Party 10 (2015) - Debug
• Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge (2016) - Testing & Quality Assurance
• Pokémon Sun and Moon (2016) - NOA Product Testing
• Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (2016) - NOA Quality Assurance
• Fire Emblem Heroes (2017) - NOA Product Testing
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) - NOA Product Testing
• Team Kirby Clash Deluxe (2017) - NOA Product Testing
• Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (2017) - NOA Product Testing
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (2017) - Debug
• ARMS (2017) - NOA Product Testing
• Hey! Pikmin (2017) - NOA Testing
• Mario Party: The Top 100 (2017) - NOA Product Testing

Special Thanks

• Teleroboxer (1995)
• Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (1996)
• Tetris Attack (GB) (1996) (International Version)
• Pokémon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition (1999) (Japanese Version)
• Pokémon Puzzle League (2000)
• Metroid: Zero Mission (2004)
• DK: Jungle Climber (2007)
• Super Mario 3D World (2013)

Interviews

• Iwata Asks: And-Kensaku (translated through Nintendo World Report)