{"id":51283,"date":"2026-05-10T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51283"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T03:47:33","slug":"legendary-mario-and-zelda-director-is-retiring-from-nintendo-after-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51283","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Mario And Zelda Director Is Retiring From Nintendo After 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1601\/16018044\/4692562-tezuka.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Nintendo legend is about to call it a day, as veteran game designer and director Takashi Tezuka will leave the company later this year. Nintendo noted in its investor briefing today that the 65-year-old Tezuka will depart on June 26, closing the book on over four decades of work at the gaming giant.<\/p>\n<p>Tezuka first began his career at Nintendo in 1984, joining as a part-time employee while he was still studying at university. Starting with Punch-Out, Tezuka would then go on to frequently work alongside another Nintendo legend, Shigeru Miyamoto, teaming up with him on several projects. It wasn&#8217;t long before Tezuka was hired as a full-time Nintendo employee, serving as the assistant director and designer on 1985&#8217;s Super Mario Bros. and then going on to direct the first The Legend of Zelda game.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, he has worked on multiple Mario games and several other big Nintendo IP like Pikmin and Animal Crossing. In the modern era, Tezuka has served as a producer and supervisor on titles like Super Mario 3D World and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/legendary-mario-and-zelda-director-is-retiring-from-nintendo-after-40-years\/1100-6539864\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nintendo legend is about to call it a day, as veteran game designer and director Takashi Tezuka will leave the company later this year&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2626,2639,1509,2830,9738,59,5013],"class_list":["post-51283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-director","tag-legendary","tag-mario","tag-nintendo","tag-retiring","tag-years","tag-zelda","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}