Hideki Konno
Overview
 
was born May 13, 1965 in Chiba, Japan and graduated from the Electronic Data Processing
Department of Japan Electronics College. Konno joined Nintendo in 1986, realizing his dream after a long adoration of playing Famicom games. Konno began working as a graphic designer on a variety of Nintendo games including the Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros.
is a 1985 platform video game developed by Nintendo, published for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros. In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario as he travels through the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Toadstool from the antagonist...

 series with Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto
is a Japanese video game designer and producer. Miyamoto was born and raised in Kyoto Prefecture; the natural surroundings of Kyoto inspired much of Miyamoto's later work....

 and Takashi Tezuka
Takashi Tezuka
, sometimes credited under his nickname Ten Ten, is a video game designer working for Nintendo. A graduate of the Design Department of Osaka University of Arts, he joined the company in April 1984 and was involved with some of the most critically acclaimed Nintendo series, including Mario and The...

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Hideki Konno is the development head of Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.
Quotations

Nor bigots who but one way see,Through blinkers of authority.

The Grotto, l. 165. (1732)

To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen,Some recommend the bowling green;Some, hilly walks; all, exercise;Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Line 89.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Line 93.

Avarice, sphincter of the heart.

Line 697.

Thus I steer my bark, and sailOn even keel, with gentle gale.

Though pleased to see the dolphins play,I mind my compass and my way.

 
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