Masahiro Sakurai
Masahiro Sakurai (桜井 政博 Sakurai Masahiro) was born on August 3, 1970 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a well known Japanese video game director and designer, most famous for the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. franchise. He previously worked for HAL Laboratory, a subsidiary of Nintendo. He left the company in 2003 and started his own company called Sora Ltd. In 2009 after the huge success with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he returned to Nintendo and created a joint subsidiary called Project Sora.
Games Directed[]
Kirby's Dream Land (1992)
Kirby's Adventure (1993)
Kirby Super Star (1996)
Super Smash Bros. (1999)
Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (2002)
Kirby Air Ride (2003)
Meteos (2005)
Kouchuu Ouja: MushiKing-- Greatest Champion e no Michi (2005)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012)
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U (2014)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
Trivia[]
Sakurai was inspired to create Kid Icarus Uprising after a left-handed childhood friend found out he worked at Nintendo and begged him to bring the series back. Sakurai found this friend extremely annoying, so made an incredibly fun Kid Icarus reboot that would feel awful for left handed people to play, purely out of spite.
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