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Yoshiaki Koizumi is a veteran Nintendo developer. While not as renown as Shigeru Miyamoto, he worked on several key titles since he joined the company in April 1991.

In particular, he worked as Assistant Director on Super Mario 64, as Director on Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy and as Producer on all Mario games going forward, including Super Mario Odyssey which is due to launch later this month.