Profile: Hideki Konno

Nintendo Company Limited
Entertainment Analysis & Development Division
EAD Software Development Department

Hideki Konno
Manager of Software Development Group No.1
Graphic Design / 1986

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Hideki Konno was born in Chiba, Japan on 1965. Konno is a graphic artists, planner, and gamer designer for the development department of Nintendo Co., Ltd. Konno graduated from the Electronic Data Processing Department of Japan Electronics College and immediately applied for a job at Nintendo. Konno recalls being hired by Nintendo as a true blessing, realizing his dream after a long adoration of playing Famicom games.

Konno was immediately drafted into Hiroshi Ikeda and Shigeru Miyamoto's Research & Development 4 Department, in a very hands-on role with designing characters and backgrounds for a variety of video games. Konno was fortunate to work on a big internal project at Nintendo titled Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, which was based on a popular television show from Fuji Television. The game enjoyed success in Japan, but the company executives made a decision to re-design the eccentric title into a "Mario" game for the North American audience. This decision introduced Hideki Konno to the Mario series, and also established him as one of Shigeru Miyamoto's top apprentice.

Konno went on to direct several titles like Ice Hockey, Super Mario Kart, SimCity, and Luigi's Mansion. In 2003, Hideki Konno became the Manager and Producer of Software Development Group No.1 of EAD Software Development Department of Entertainment Analysis & Development Division. Konno now manages and produces several projects including Mario Kart and Nintendogs.

Major Works

• Mario Kart 3D (Nintendo 3DS / 2011) - Producer
• Nintendogs+Cats (Nintendo 3DS / 2011) - Producer
• Nintendo 3DS (Hardware / 2011) - Hardware Producer
• DSi Sound (Nintendo DSi / 2008) - Producer
• Mario Kart Wii (Wii / 2008) - Producer
• Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS / 2005) - Producer
• Geist (GameCube / 2005) - Producer
• Nintendogs (Nintendo DS / 2005) - Producer
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GameCube / 2002) - Supervisor
• Luigi's Mansion (GameCube / 2001) - Director
• Mario Kart: Super Circuit (Game Boy Advance / 2001) - Supervisor
• Yoshi's Story (Nintendo 64 / 1997) - Director
• Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64 / 1996) - Director
• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (Super Nintendo / 1995) - Director
• Super Mario Kart (Super Nintendo / 1992) - Director
• Sim City (Super Nintendo / 1991) - Director
• Super Mario World (Super Nintendo / 1991) - Map Director
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (Nintendo Entertainment System / 1988) - Assistant Director
• Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) (Nintendo Entertainment System / 1988) - Assistant Director
• Ice Hockey (Nintendo Entertainment System / 1988 - Director
• Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (Famicom Disk System / 1987 - Assistant Director