Masanao Arimoto
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Born | October 27th, 1966 | |
Position | Background Designer |
Masanao Arimoto is a game developer who has worked for Nintendo since the late 1980's, first working on the Famicom Disk System title, Yūyūki, before then moving on to games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. His first work on the Zelda team came on A Link to the Past, where he worked alongside Tsuyoshi Watanabe as a Background Designer. He would later go on to work as an Character Director for Link's Awakening, a Design Manager for The Wind Waker and Four Swords Adventures. Arimoto would return to work on The Wind Waker HD, working with the Graphic Design team.
In addition to working on several Legend of Zelda titles, Arimoto has worked on several games in the F-Zero, Super Mario, Pokemon, and Super Smash Bros. franchises.
Release | Game | Credit(s) |
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1991 | A Link to the Past | Back Ground Designer |
1993 | Link's Awakening | Character Director |
2002 | The Wind Waker | Design Manager |
2004 | Four Swords Adventures | Design Manager |
2013 | The Wind Waker HD | Graphic Design |