Eiji Aonuma

Eiji Aonuma
青沼 英二
あおぬま えいじ

Games	All Zelda games since Ocarina of Time
Born	1963 (age 58 or 59)
Position	Producer Director

Eiji Aonuma (born as Eiji Onozuka in 1963 in Japan) is a well known Japanese video game designer, video game director and video game producer. He works for Nintendo and is one of the key people behind The Legend of Zelda series.

Career

In 1996 Eiji Aonuma was designing a game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System called Marvelous: Mouhitotsu no Takarajim. Shigeru Miyamoto noticed Eiji Aonuma's great work with the game so he invited him to work as assistant director for the next Nintendo 64 Zelda title, Ocarina of Time.^{[citation needed]} Shigeru Miyamoto was very pleased with Eiji Aonuma's work on Ocarina of Time, so for the next Zelda game, Majora's Mask, Eiji Aonuma was the main director.

Eiji Aonuma kept on directing Zelda games and continued with The Wind Waker. After that Eiji Aonuma was about to leave the Zelda franchise and begin some other projects, but Shigeru Miyamoto encouraged him to stay, and that he did.^{[citation needed]} In 2006 Twilight Princess was released on both the GameCube and the Wii, and that was yet another title which Eiji Aonuma had directed.

Trivia

• Eiji Aonuma plays percussion instruments in a band called "The Wind Wakers". They perform four times a year for the employees of Nintendo.^{[citation needed]}
• Eiji Aonuma has never beaten the original The Legend of Zelda.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Eiji Aonuma at Wikipedia
• Eiji Aonuma at IMDB
• Eiji Aonuma at RAWG
• Eiji Aonuma at Mobygames

Release	Game	Credits(s)
1998	Ocarina of Time	Game System Director (Credited as Eiji Onozuka)
2000	Majora's Mask	Game System Director
2002	The Wind Waker	Director
2004	Four Swords Adventures	Producer
2006	Twilight Princess	Director
2007	Phantom Hourglass	Producer
2009	Spirit Tracks	Producer
2011	Skyward Sword	Producer
2013	A Link Between Worlds	Producer