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

Director

• Masahiro Sakurai

Assistant chief director

• Yoichi Sukino

Programming director

• Yoshiki Suzuki

Programming

System:

• Yoshiki Suzuki

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

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

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

Announcements:

• Dean Harrington (also voices Master Hand and Crazy Hand)

Mario, Luigi, Dr. Mario:

• Charles Martinet

Link:

• Nobuyuki Hiyama

Yoshi:

• Kazumi Totaka

Kirby, Ness:

• Makiko Ohmoto

Fox:

• Shinobu Satouchi (vocal effects, Japanese cutscene dialogue)
• Steve Malpass (English cutscene dialogue)

Pikachu:

• Ikue Ohtani

Jigglypuff:

• Mika Kanai (Japanese)
• Rachel Lillis (English)

Peach:

• Jen Taylor

Captain Falcon:

• Ryo Horikawa

Zelda, Sheik:

• Jun Misuzawa

Marth:

• Hikaru Midorikawa

Mewtwo:

• Masachika Ichimura

Pichu:

• Satomi Kohrogi

Young Link:

• Fujiko Takimoto

Roy:

• Jun Fukuyama

Ganondorf:

• Takashi Nagasako

Popo:

• Sanae Kobayashi

Falco:

• Hisao Egawa (vocal effects, Japanese cutscene dialogue)
• Ben Cullum (English cutscene dialogue)

Peppy, Slippy:

• Chris Seavor

Crowd cheers:

• Bill Trinen
• Tim O'Leary
• Nate Bihldorff

"DK Rap" vocals

• 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 design:

• Tadashi Sugiyama

Yoshi character design:

• Shigefumi Hino

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

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 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