Manabu Yamana
aka:
M. Yamana,
山名 学
Moby ID: 134093
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Manabu Yamana (山名学, born 8th June 1965) is a Japanese game designer and programmer from Tokyo. After having worked on MSX and PC-88 computer games during his high school years, he joined Chunsoft while attending college. He was one of the programmers for Dragon Quest games. In 1992, he founded Heart Beat and led the development of several Dragon Quest installments. After the company's dissolution in 2002, he went on to found Genius Sonority.
Credited on 20 games
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| Pokémon Café Mix (2020, iPhone) | Game Designer |
| Pokémon Battle Trozei (2014, Nintendo 3DS) | Director |
| Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure (2011, Nintendo DS) | Director |
| Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (2007, Wii) | Production Executive |
| Pokémon Battle Revolution (2006, Wii) | Director |
| Pokémon Trozei! (2005, Nintendo DS) | Director |
| Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness (2005, GameCube) | Director |
| Pokémon Colosseum (2003, GameCube) | Directed by |
| Dragon Quest IV: Michibikareshi Monotachi (2001, PlayStation) | Director of Programming |
| Dragon Warrior VII (2000, PlayStation) | Director of Programming |
| Dragon Warrior III (1996, SNES) | Main Program |
| Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi (1995, SNES) | Direction |
| Dragon Quest V: Tenkū no Hanayome (1992, SNES) | Director |
| Otogirisō (1992, SNES) | Development Director (開発監督) |
| Dragon Warrior IV (1990, NES) | Chief Programmers |
| Dragon Warrior III (1988, NES) | Programmer |
| Dragon Warrior II (1987, NES) | Programmers |
| Dragon Warrior (1986, NES) | Programmed by |
| Midnight Building (1983, MSX) | Copyright 1983 by |
| Super Drinker (1983, MSX) | By |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 12 games with Masayuki Kawamoto
- 10 games with Yuji Horii
- 10 games with Akira Toriyama
- 10 games with Yukinobu Chida
- 10 games with Tsukasa Tawada
- 10 games with Koichi Sugiyama
- 8 games with Kazunori Orio
- 8 games with Chihiro Kobayashi
- 7 games with Keiji Honda
- 7 games with Takashi Yasuno
Companies
- 9 games with Enix Corporation
- 8 games with Genius Sonority, Inc.
- 7 games with Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
- 7 games with Pokémon Company, The
- 6 games with Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- 6 games with Nintendo of America Inc.
- 4 games with Nintendo of Europe GmbH
- 4 games with Heart Beat
- 4 games with Enix America Inc.
- 4 games with Nortec Multimedia A.E.
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