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Yoichi Yamada is a video game planner at Nintendo and a prominent member of the Zelda team, having worked on almost every Zelda game released since the A Link to the Past days as a planner.
In his first projects at the company he worked on early sound and polygon research on the SNES, and later on was also involved on titles like Star Fox, Wave Race 64, and Luigi's Mansion.
Since the GameCube era, Yamada has been one of the main planners and supervisors of the Zelda series, having worked on nearly every title of the series.
Games
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991) - Assistant Director
- Star Fox (1993) - Assistant Director
- Star Fox 2 (1995) - Assistant Director
- Super Mario 64 (1996) - Course Director
- Wave Race 64 (1996) - Demo Sequence Director
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998) - Game System Director
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000) - Memory Management Director
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (2001) - Supervisor
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (2001) - Supervisor
- Luigi's Mansion (2001) - Assistant Director
- Pikmin (2001) - Debug Support
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (GBA) (2002) - Director
- The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (2002) - Supervisor
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002) - Assistant Director
- The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (2004) - Supervisor
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006) - Sub-Director
- The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (2007) - Supervisor
- Link's Crossbow Training (2007) - Sub-Director
- The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (2009) - Supervisor
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (2011) - Planning
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (2013) - Field Planning
- The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes (2015) - Game Planning Lead
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) - Game Design
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch) (2019) - Original Supervisor
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