Satoru Okada was a former Nintendo employee who was general manager of Research and Engineering Department. Okada was also directed several games including Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Super Mario Land. He helped create the Game Boy alongside Gunpei Yokoi. After Yokoi left, Okada became the chief developer for handheld systems up through the Nintendo DS. He also designed Nintendo's first handheld console the Game & Watch and the NES Zapper. He retired in January 2010.
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| - Satoru Okada was a former Nintendo employee who was general manager of Research and Engineering Department. Okada was also directed several games including Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Super Mario Land. He helped create the Game Boy alongside Gunpei Yokoi. After Yokoi left, Okada became the chief developer for handheld systems up through the Nintendo DS. He also designed Nintendo's first handheld console the Game & Watch and the NES Zapper. He retired in January 2010.
- Okada entered Nintendo in 1975, and went on to work as an engineer at Nintendo Research & Development 1 with Gunpei Yokoi, who developed the hugely successful Game & Watch and Game Boy handheld game consoles. In 1996, Yokoi left Nintendo which caused R&D1 to split, its engineers creating a portable hardware division of which Okada became the general manager. His team lacked Yokoi but nevertheless developed hugely successful handheld consoles, those being the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP and most recently the Nintendo DS.
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| - Satoru Okada was a former Nintendo employee who was general manager of Research and Engineering Department. Okada was also directed several games including Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Super Mario Land. He helped create the Game Boy alongside Gunpei Yokoi. After Yokoi left, Okada became the chief developer for handheld systems up through the Nintendo DS. He also designed Nintendo's first handheld console the Game & Watch and the NES Zapper. He retired in January 2010.
- Okada entered Nintendo in 1975, and went on to work as an engineer at Nintendo Research & Development 1 with Gunpei Yokoi, who developed the hugely successful Game & Watch and Game Boy handheld game consoles. In 1996, Yokoi left Nintendo which caused R&D1 to split, its engineers creating a portable hardware division of which Okada became the general manager. His team lacked Yokoi but nevertheless developed hugely successful handheld consoles, those being the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP and most recently the Nintendo DS. Okada also participated in the development of several Nintendo games, as the assistant producer of Metroid, the director of Solar Striker (along with Keisuke Terasaki) and Super Mario Land and contributor to many other titles. Nowadays, he is fully dedicated to designing and developing handheld consoles.
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