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Masanao Arimoto is a veteran graphic designer who works for Nintendo. He joined the company during the end of the Nintendo Entertainment System era and has worked mostly in several high profile games in The Legend of Zelda and Mario franchises throughout his career.
Around the GameCube era, Arimoto took on the role of design director. In recent years, he has been mostly involved in the 2D Mario series.
Game Works
- Yūyūki (1989) - CG Design
- F-Zero (1990) - Design
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991) - Background Designer
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993) - Character Designer
- Star Fox 2 (1995) - Graphic Designer
- Super Mario 64 (1996) - Additional Graphics
- Mario Kart 64 (1996) - CG Character Designer
- Yoshi's Story (1997) - CG Designer
- F-Zero X (1998) - Graphic Support
- Pocket Monsters Stadium (1998) - Effect Design
- Pokémon Stadium (1999) - 2D CG Director
- Pokémon Stadium 2 (2000) - Pokémon Stadium: Staff
- Animal Crossing (2001) - Effect Design
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002) - Design Manager
- The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (2004) - Design Manager
- Yoshi Touch & Go (2005) - Design Director
- New Super Mario Bros. (2006) - Design Director
- Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (2007) - Design Director
- New Play Control! Pikmin (2008) - Design
- New Play Control! Pikmin 2 (2009) - Designer
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) - Planning
- Steel Diver (2011) - Battle Mode Design
- New Super Mario Bros. U (2012) - Field Design
- New Super Luigi U (2013) - Field Design
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (2013) - Graphic Design
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U (2014) - Supervisor (Original Games)
- Super Mario Maker (2015) - Lead Character Design
- Super Mario Run (2016) - Field Design
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) - Original Game Supervisor
- Super Mario Maker 2 (2019) - Character Art
Special Thanks
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 (2012)
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