Makoto Kano (video game designer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Nintendo character designer
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Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
About Makoto Kano (video game designer)
- Makoto Kano (?? ?, Kano Makoto, born October 30, 1950), also credited as Makoto Kanoh pre-1995, is a Japanese game designer and supervisor.
- He was born in Kyoto, Japan. Kano began working for Nintendo in 1974.
- He was one of the original designers in Nintendo's creative department.
- Originally, he designed toys and board games before working on the Nintendo Beam Gun series.
- Kano eventually became one of the lead designers of the Game & Watch series.
- By 1984, he was heavily involved in several Nintendo R&D1 games, including Hogan's Alley, Gyromite, and more specifically the Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Famicom Wars series.
- Some other projects he has worked on at Nintendo include Super Metroid, the Super Scope for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and Mario & Wario. Kano is credited with creating several early Nintendo characters during the 1980s.
- Ultimately, his best known achievement may have been creating the concepts of the Metroid, Famicom Wars, and Kid Icarus universe.
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