Manabu Yamana
aka: M. Yamana, 山名 学
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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 on iPhone) | Game Designer |
| Pokémon Battle Trozei (2014 on Nintendo 3DS) | Director |
| Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure (2011 on Nintendo DS) | Director |
| Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (2007 on Wii) | Production Executive |
| Pokémon Battle Revolution (2006 on Wii) | Director |
| Pokémon Trozei! (2005 on Nintendo DS) | Director |
| Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness (2005 on GameCube) | Director |
| Pokémon Colosseum (2003 on GameCube) | Directed by |
| Dragon Quest IV: Michibikareshi Monotachi (2001 on PlayStation) | Director of Programming |
| Dragon Warrior VII (2000 on PlayStation) | Programming |
| Dragon Warrior III (1996 on SNES) | Main Program |
| Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi (1995 on SNES) | Main Program |
| Dragon Quest V: Tenkū no Hanayome (1992 on SNES) | Director |
| Otogirisō (1992 on SNES) | Development Director (開発監督) |
| Dragon Warrior IV (1990 on NES) | Chief Programmers |
| Dragon Warrior III (1988 on NES) | Programmer |
| Dragon Warrior II (1987 on NES) | Programmers |
| Dragon Warrior (1986 on NES) | Programmed by |
| Midnight Building (1983 on MSX) | Copyright 1983 by |
| Super Drinker (1983 on MSX) | By |
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Manabu Yamana
2013
Frequent Collaborators
- 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 Tsunekazu Ishihara
- 7 games with Akira Fukushima
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