Sakamoto to present at GDC

[jarrod]

Wyrdness said:

jarrod said:

Wyrdness said:
Sakamoto didn't create Metroid Gunpei Yoko did, Sakmoto has mainly been the series director in the same way Aonuma is for Zelda.

Uh... except Sakamoto has been there since day one and even directed the original.  Metroid's pretty much his more than anyone else's, like Miyamoto and Donkey Kong or Mario.

Sakamoto was also the driving force behind Kid Icarus, Balloon Fight, Wario Ware and Rhythm Heaven.

Anyone can be there from day one but the fact is Gunpei Yokoi created Metroid the ain't no two ways about it no matter what spin you use, no Yokoi no Metroid, Sakamoto has been in the loop for long because he was one of Yokoi's top men. Yokoi had Makoto Kano design the Metroid series concept while someone else did the art design under his direction, using the combined concept Yokoi then task R&D1 now intelligent systems to created the first game and had Sakamoto one of the more senior designers direct the game to the concieved concept, Metroid is as much his as Zelda is Aonuma's, they worked on the series they direct work on for ages but it doesn't mean they created them.

That's like saying Yokoi "created" Donkey Kong and Mario Bros.  He was the producer on all these games.

Miyamoto was the designer/director for Donkey Kong and Mario Bros, Sakamoto was the designer/director for Metroid (with Kiyotake).  Kanoh only did the script/scenario for Metroid, none of the actual game design.