Masahiro Sakurai (桜井 政博, Sakurai Masahiro, born August 3, 1970) is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby...

a pre-E3 2005 press conference by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Masahiro Sakurai, director of the previous two games in the series, assumed the role...

fighting game series published by Nintendo. The series was created by Masahiro Sakurai, who has directed every game in the series. The series is known for...

player Koji Sakurai (桜井 孝次, born 1936), Japanese triple jumper Kunihiko Sakurai (桜井 邦彦, born 1972), Japanese ice hockey player Masahiro Sakurai (桜井 政博, born...

genres. Kirby was created by Masahiro Sakurai as the player character of the 1992 video game Kirby's Dream Land. Sakurai conceived the idea around May...

Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U after the series' director, Masahiro Sakurai, assured some changes to re-add him; among the changes, Meta Knight...

weapons. Super Smash Bros. Melee was developed by HAL Laboratory, with Masahiro Sakurai as the head of production. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto served as...

3DS/Wii U's downloadable content (DLC). Series creator and director Masahiro Sakurai returned along with Bandai Namco Studios and Sora, the studios that...

2019. Sakurai, Masahiro (host) (2023-04-30). Paint an Accurate Picture of Your Game [Marketing] (Web Video) (in Japanese). Masahiro Sakurai on Creating...

game to other Nintendo series, including Arms, Pikmin, and Splatoon. Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series, praised the...

and several multiplayer modes are available for up to six players. Masahiro Sakurai created Uprising after receiving a request from Satoru Iwata to create...

was developed by HAL Laboratory, a Nintendo second-party developer. Masahiro Sakurai was interested in making a fighting game for four players. He made...

after King Dedede breaks it apart and gives the pieces to his minions. Masahiro Sakurai returned as director after serving the same role for Kirby's Dream...

of Dream Land from King Dedede. Kirby's Dream Land was designed by Masahiro Sakurai in his debut game, who intended it to be a simple game that could be...

game in the series to be directed by Shinichi Shimomura instead of Masahiro Sakurai. Shimomura would go on to direct Kirby's Dream Land 3, Kirby 64: The...

produced by Q Entertainment founder Tetsuya Mizuguchi and designed by Masahiro Sakurai. Meteos was inspired by the video game Missile Command (1980), the...

the Metroid series. The director of the Super Smash Bros. series, Masahiro Sakurai, stated in an interview with Nintendo Power that the development team...

GameCube systems. It was the final Kirby game directed by series creator Masahiro Sakurai. The game had a convoluted development cycle, starting as one of the...

by NES enthusiasts and industry figures like Shigeru Miyamoto and Masahiro Sakurai for its advanced mechanics, unique level design, and the technical...

character for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, game director Masahiro Sakurai jokingly stated that "just because you try hard doesn't mean you'll...

Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U after the series' director, Masahiro Sakurai, assured some changes to re-add him; among these changes, Meta Knight...

States and Yie Ar Kung-Fu in the United Kingdom. Video game developer Masahiro Sakurai considers 1986 the most incredible year for the video game industry...

Brawl, and has become his standard design since then. According to Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the Super Smash Bros. series and director of Kid Icarus:...

two years after their Japanese release. Additionally, he assisted Masahiro Sakurai in the development of Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64. In 2000...

was its graphical style and art direction. Japanese game designer Masahiro Sakurai named the game as an example of a video game with stylish UI design...

Kirby's Pinball Land is a 1993 pinball video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. It was HAL Laboratory's third...

Fantasy VII and Advent Children. According to the games' director Masahiro Sakurai, Final Fantasy characters were heavily requested to appear in the Super...

3DS and Wii U; that according to Super Smash Bros. series director Masahiro Sakurai was added due to an agreement reached between Square Enix and Nintendo...

twenty million games sold worldwide. The franchise was conceived by Masahiro Sakurai as a game series for beginners, for which he partially attributes the...

mode, which features an intensity setting directly influenced by Masahiro Sakurai's previous project Kid Icarus: Uprising, in which players can make the...