Profile: Yasunari Nishida

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

Yasunari Nishida
Development Environment Group
Program / 1985

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Yasunari Nishida is one of the original programmers working with Shigeru Miyamoto during the early days of the Entertainment Analysis & Development Division. Nishida was originally an employee of SRD Company Limited and working inside EAD to program several titles like the original Super Mario Bros. and the first installment of The Legend of Zelda. Nishida officially joined Nintendo during the Super Famicom development period, where he joined an internal EAD programming team working on Mode 7 technology.

Yasunari Nishida is currently a senior member of the Development Environment Group within the EAD Technology Development Department of Entertainment Analysis & Development Division.

Major Works

• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii / 2008) - Program Support
• Wii Play (Wii / 2006) - Program Support
• Wii Sports (Wii / 2006) - Program Support
• Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo DS / 2004) - Program Support
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GameCube / 2002) - Tool Program
• Pokémon Stadium (Nintendo 64 / 1999) - Program Director
• Pokémon Stadium (Nintendo 64 / 1998) - Program Director
• Yoshi's Story (Nintendo 64 / 1997) - Technicak Support
• Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64 / 1996) - System Program
• Star Fox (Super Nintendo / 1993) - Program Support
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past (Super Nintendo / 1991) - Program
• F-Zero (Super Nintendo / 1990) - Program
• Zelda 2: Adventure of Link (Nintendo Entertainment System / 1987) - Program