Yoshio Sakamoto is a game designer who works at Nintendo. He is best known for his work on the Metroid series. His first video game was Donkey Kong on the Game & Watch where he designed the barrels. Following this, he worked on several Game & Watch games and worked on Donkey Kong Jr. He worked on several classic Nintendo Entertainment System games including Metroid and Kid Icarus. He became very well known after he directed the Super Nintendo Entertainment System classic Super Metroid. He followed up on that game by heading a couple of Virtual Boy titles, only to return to the Metroid series later with Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid: Other M. In the mean time, he started working on the WarioWare series, which led to future wacky games in Rhythm Heaven and Tomodachi Colle