Hideki Konno

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Hideki Konno (born May 13 1965 in Chiba, Japan)is the development head of Nintendo EAD Group 1. He is notable for being one of the main designers of the Mario Kart series of games.

Games he has worked on: Ice Hockey (Nintendo Entertainment System,1988) Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo Entertainment System, 1988) Super Mario Bros. 3 (Nintendo Entertainment System, 1990) Super Mario Kart(Super Nintendo Entertainment System, 1992) Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (Super Nintendo Entertainment System, 1995) Mario Kart 64(Nintendo 64, 1997) Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo GameCube, 2001) The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Nintendo GameCube, 2003) Nintendogs (Nintendo DS, 2005) Mario Kart DS(Nintendo DS, 2005) Mario Kart Wii(Wii, 2008)

^[1] He was the co-director of the original SNES title, the Nintendo 64 follow up, the online enabled Nintendo DS version, and most recently the Wii iteration.