List of Super Smash Bros. Melee staff
This is a list of the staff involved with the game Super Smash Bros. Melee. Data from this list is sourced from this page.
Planning
- Masahiro Sakurai
- Yoichi Sukino
- Ryuichi Noguchi
Chief director
- Masahiro Sakurai
Assistant chief director
- Yoichi Sukino
Programming director
- Yoshiki Suzuki
Programming
System:
- Yoshiki Suzuki
Player collision; motion transportation:
- Yoichi Sukino
Characters, stage selection, and effects:
- Akio Hanyu
Items and special moves:
- Isao Takahashi
- Yoshimi Takahashi
- Katsuhiro Sakoda
Devices:
- Seiji Otoguro
- Yoshimi Takahashi
- Kazuhiro Mizusawa
Figures:
- Seiji Otoguro
Enemies:
- Seiji Otoguro
- Masakazu Ebihara
Event Matches:
- Isao Takahashi
- Katsuhiro Sakoda
Playable characters:
- Kouichi Watanabe
- Tomokazu Tsuruoka
Pokémon:
- Masakazu Ebihara
Database management:
- Masakazu Ebihara
Stages and camera work:
- Kazuhiro Misuzawa
Player library, dynamics, and AI:
- Masashi Yamane
Figure explanations:
- Masahiro Sakurai
Game modes and indication:
- Yoshiya Taniguchi
Menus, cinema scenes, endings, and sprite library:
- Yasuyuki Nagashima
Training and tournaments:
- Kim Sung-Kwen
Special bonuses:
- Tomokazu Tsuruoka
All-Star Mode and staff credits:
- Takayuki Sugano
Design director
- Hitoshi Kobayashi
Design work
Game and data design:
- Masahiro Sakurai
Stage design:
- Yoichi Sukino
Item and figure design:
- Hitoshi Kobayashi
Device design:
- Tsuyoshi Wakayama
- Atsuko Nakamura
Artwork design:
- Kenichiro Kita
Menu, character, stage selection, and staff credits design:
- Michiko Takahashi
Motion design (HAL Laboratory):
- Masaru Kobayashi
- Dai Suzuki
- Akiko Hayashi
- Mutsuo Ohmiya
- Tatsuhiko Ohi
- Takahashi Ariga
- Masaya Akiyama
- C. Shane Allala
Motion design (Creatures Inc.)
- Kazuo Yazawa
- Mikio Menjo
- Katsura Tabata
- Masahiro Abeki
- Yuji Kawarada
- Jungo Suzuki
- So Yoshimura
Game demo movie and screen shot design:
- Kouji Akaike
- Kazuo Yazawa
Opening movie design:
- Kei Hoshiba
- Jungo Suzuki
- Ken Ikuji
Playable character modeling (HAL Laboratory):
- Hitoshi Kobayashi
- Hitoshi Kikkawa
- Tetsuya Mochizuki
- Kenichiro Kita
Playable character modeling (Creatures Inc.)
- Kei Hoshiba
Item modeling:
- Tsuyoshi Wakayama
Stage modeling (HAL Laboratory):
- Tsuyoshi Wakayama
- Tadashi Hashikura
- Hitoshi Kikkawa
- Sanae Kubota
- Atsuko Nakamura
- Kunio Watanabe
Stage modeling (Creatures Inc.)
- Yousuke Hirata
- Atsuko Ujiie
- Toru Kurashige
- Ryuta Kusumi
- Keita Komatsu
- Satomi Kokubo
- Hikaru Jinguji
Enemy modeling:
- Hitoshi Kikkawa
- Tetsuya Mochizuki
- Atsuko Nakamura
Effect and background modeling:
- Kunio Watanabe
Figure modeling (Creatures Inc.):
- Mikio Menjo
- Katsura Tabata
- Masahiro Abeki
- Yuji Kawarada
- Jungo Suzuki
- So Yoshimura
- Yousuke Hirata
- Atsuko Ujiie
- Toru Kurashige
- Ryuta Kusumi
- Keita Komatsu
- Satomi Kokubo
- Hikaru Jinguji
- Ken Ikuji
Figure modeling (Dice):
- Tomohiro Sato
Figure modeling assistants:
- Hiromichi Sugiyama
- Nachi Sugiyama
- Yoshiyuki Tagawa
- Shinichi Yoshikawa
Figure design support:
- Tsuyoshi Wakayama
Stage design support:
- Ryuichi Noguchi
Opening movie design support:
- Atsuko Nakamura
Design support:
- Hiroo Takeshita
- Tomomi Minami
- Reiko Iwao
- Teruhiko Suzuki
- Tomoko Nagaya
Sound and music staff
Music composition:
- Hirokazu Ando
- Shogo Sakai
Music arrangement:
- Hirokazu Ando
- Tadashi Ikegami
- Shogo Sakai
- Takuto Kisuta
Music coordination:
- Hirokazu Ando
Voice coordination:
- Tadashi Ikegami
Sound composition:
- Tadashi Ikegami
Librarian:
- Shogo Sakai
Mixing:
- Hirofumi Sato
Mixing assistant:
- Yuuichi Kaneko
Pokémon audio planning:
- Masafumi Mima
Musical performance
- Orchestra "Melee"
- Conducted by Taizo Takemoto
Voice acting
- Dean Harrington
- Charles Martinet
- Nobuyuki Hiyama
- Kazumi Totaka
- Makiko Ōmoto
- Shinobu Satouchi
- Steve Malpass
- Ikue Ohtani
- Mika Kanai
- Rachel Lillis
- Jen Taylor
- Ryo Horikawa
- Jun Misuzawa
- Hikaru Midorikawa
- Masachika Ichimura
- Satomi Kohrogi
- Fujiko Takimoto
- Jun Fukuyama
- Takashi Nagasako
- Sanae Kobayashi
- Hisao Egawa
- Ben Cullum
- Chris Seavor
- Bill Trinen
- Tim O'Leary
- Nate Bihldorff
- James W. Norwood, Jr.
North American localization
English text editing:
- Rich Amtower
- Bill Trinen
- Jeff Miller
English text writing:
- Bill Trinen
English translation:
- Tim O'Leary
- Nate Bihldorff
Localization management:
- Jeff Miller
- Leslie Swan
U.S. text writing support:
- Norimasa Tanikawa
Original game staff
Producer and director of original games:
- Shigeru Miyamoto
Mario, Luigi, Link, and Donkey Kong character designs:
- Shigeru Miyamoto
Star Fox and F-Zero character designs:
- Takaya Imamura
The Legend of Zelda character illustration:
- Yusuke Nakano
Metroid game design:
- Yoshio Sakamoto
Samus character design:
- Hiroji Kiyotake
Super Metroid CG design:
- Tomoyoshi Yamane
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time director:
- Eiji Aonuma
Ice Climber character designs:
- Tadashi Sugiyama
Yoshi character design:
- Shigefumi Hino
Kirby character design:
- Masahiro Sakurai
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time character designs:
- Yoshiki Haruhana
Ganondorf character design:
- Satoshi Takizawa
EarthBound producers:
- Shigesato Itoi
- Tsunekazu Ishihara
Yoshi's Story producer:
- Takashi Tezuka
Miscellaneous Nintendo character designs:
- Makoto Kano
- Toru Osawa
Pokémon executive director:
- Satoshi Tajiri
Pokémon director:
- Junichi Masuda
Pokémon graphic director:
- Ken Sugimori
Pokémon programming:
- Shigeki Morimoto
- Tetsuya Watanabe
- Sousuke Tamada
- Tetsuji Ohta
Pokémon planning:
- Kouji Nishino
Pokémon coordination:
- Hiroyuki Jinnai
Pokémon product supervision:
- Tsunekazu Ishihara
Fire Emblem director:
- Tohru Narihiro
Fire Emblem designer:
- Masahiro Higuchi
Fire Emblem scenario:
- Masayuki Horikawa
Fire Emblem art director:
- Taeko Kaneda
Fire Emblem supervisor:
- Kentaro Nichimura
Super Mario Bros. and Star Fox 64 music composition:
- Koji Kondo
The Legend of Zelda music composition:
- Koji Kondo
- Akito Nakatsuka
Yoshi's Story music composition:
- Kazumi Totaka
Kirby Super Deluxe music composition:
- Jun Ishikawa
Metroid music composition:
- Hirokazu Tanaka
EarthBound music composition:
- Keiichi Suzuki
Ice Climber music composition:
- Akito Nakatsuka
F-Zero X music composition:
- Taro Bando
Donkey Kong Country music composition:
- David Wise
Creatures staff management
- Kei Hoshiba
- Ashura Benimaru Itoh
Nintendo character supervisor
- Youichi Kotabe
Special thanks
Conductor coordination:
- Yuji Yasuda
Voice cast coordination:
- Noriyoshi Matsuura
"DK Stage Rap" vocal coordination:
- Steve "Bang" Pang
Orchestra coordination:
- Reiko Yanami
Choir coordination:
- Suehiro Endo
Pokémon supervisors:
- Hiroki Enomoto
- Kazuyuki Terada
- Akihito Tamura
- Ryohei Itakura
Pokémon coordination:
- Gakuji Nomoto
- Ai Mashima
- Kunimi Kawamura
- Masayuki Miura
- Yumiko Murai
Proofreading for Pokémon:
- Takemoto Mori
Marigul Management:
- Hisakazu Hirabayashi
- Masachi Uchiyama
- Yuko Yamamoto
- Kazutoshi Iida
- Rikuo Kurebayashi
- Kouji Suzuki
- Shigeo Sasaki
Totakeke rough design:
- Yumi Yoshimi
Original Nintendo game staff:
- Satomi Maekawa
- Wataru Yamaguchi
- Hiroaki Takenaka
- Tomoaki Kuroume
- Katsuya Eguchi
- Hisashi Nogami
- Noriko Ikegawa
- Yoshiaki Koizumi
- Hiromu Takemura
- Jin Ikeda
- Junji Morii
- Hiroyuki Kimura
- Takeshi Hosono
- Shinya Takahashi
- Tsuyoshi Watanabe
- Aya Sumimoto
- Tokihiko Toyoda
- Tatsuya Hishida
- Yasuhiro Sakai
- Kenta Usui
- Mitsuhiro Takano
- Masamichi Abe
- Hiroyuki Yamada
- Keisuke Terasaki
- Masashi Goto
- Masanori Sato
- Takehiro Izushi
- Hitoshi Yamagami
- Hiroshi Sato
- Toshiharu Izuno
- Shigeki Yamashiro
- Jun Tsujimoto
- Nintendo Software Technology
Wilcolinks Digiworks:
- Hideki Nakano
- Yoshihisa Kato
- Keiichi Abe
- Takeo Niikura
- Masako Ohno
HAL Lab Debug Team:
- Senji Hirose et al.
Nintendo Co., Ltd. debug staff:
- Tsutomu Kaganezawa
- Masahiro Takeguchi
- Hironobu Kakui
- Super Mario Club
Nintendo of America debug staff:
- Michael Kelbaugh
- Kyle Hudson
- Eric Bush
- Randy Shoemake
- Kiyohiko Ando
- Michael Chipman
- Jason Mahaffa
- Chris Needham
- David Hunziker
- Nicko Gonzalez
- NOA Debug Team
Digital Media Lab:
- Shinji "Miki & Gaku" Torigoge
- Tadashi Tominaga
- Masaki Sakai
- Nozomi Sanada
- Satoshi Maruyama
- Takayuki Higurashi
- Manabu Takahashi
- Syozi "Okap" Okada
- Kazuhiro Nakatani
- Kensuke Yamamoto
Public relations:
- Satoshi Ishida
- Tetsuya Notoya
Buildup:
- Nobuya Okabe
- Satoshi Nagaoka
- Tetsuya Amabiki
- Masayuki Gotoh
- Naoto Oonuki
- Takayuki Hayama
- Tomoya Ohata
- Fumihito Saito
- Ryoko Suzuki
- Kazutsugu Kosugi
- Shin Kitada
- Hajime Ishiyama
Sysdolphin:
- Chiharu Itoh
- Hidetoshi Seki
- Jun Yamasaki
- Shigeru Hirayama
- Junichi Aoyagi
- Tatsuhiro Tanoue
- Takaaki Kazuno
- Hajime Kojima
- Takashi Matsuda
- Takashi Saito
- Takeshi Shimada
- Hiroshi Yoshino
- Satoshi Kira
Artwork coordination:
- Masao Kamada
General coordination:
- Yukiko Kishimoto
- Kamon Yoshimura
Nintendo Support Staff:
- Koji Uyama
- Takeshi Furuta
- Ryuta Kaimoto
- Kensuke Tanabe
- Shin Hasegawa
Marketing supervision:
- Satoru Iwata
- Minoru Arakawa
- Manabu "Mike" Fukuda
Package and manual design, editing, and printing:
- Ryuji Hagino
- Kazuya Konishi
- Hisatoshi Takeuchi
- Emi Masai
- Tomoko Kitada
- Hiroshi Fujie
- Kaori Nishimura
Project manager
- Ryuki Kuraoka
Producers
- Masayoshi Tanimura
- Hiroaki Suga
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Kenji Miki
Executive producer
- Hiroshi Yamauchi
