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Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
About Tadashi Sugiyama
- Tadashi Sugiyama (?? ?, Sugiyama Tadashi, born April 15, 1959) is a Japanese video game designer and producer who works for Nintendo.
- Sugiyama joined the company in 1983, and served as one of the original young design staff for Nintendo's creative department.
- Sugiyama contributed graphic design to several games and worked with several notable Nintendo staff, including Mario series creator Shigeru Miyamoto and former president Satoru Iwata.
- Sugiyama originally worked as a graphic designer and character artist on several early Famicom titles.
- One of his early famous creations were the character designs of Popo and Nana from Ice Climber.
- Sugiyama went on to co-direct Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.
- Sugiyama was also one of the central designers working on Miyamoto's GBA-GCN Connectivity experiments, most of which never saw release.
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