Toshio Iwai
Moby ID: 207542
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Toshio is a Japanese media artist, who has been making interactive installations for museums and galleries all over the world since 1985. Two of Toshio’s works, Well of Lights and Music Insects are part of the permanent collection at the San Francisco Exploratorium and his recent piece, Piano -- as image media, an interactive installation which combined a computer-controlled grand piano and computer-generated imagery, was shown at the Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, New York. Toshio became a cult figure in Japan with his computer-generated virtual sets and characters for the immensely popular daily interactive children's show for Fuji TV, "UgoUgoLhuga" (1992-94). Recently, he has been trying to combine visual and musical creativity on the computer.
Credited on 6 games
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| Vitamin Connection (2020, Nintendo Switch) | Special Thanks |
| Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018, Nintendo Switch) | Original Game Supervisors |
| Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008, Wii) | Supervisors (Original Games) |
| Electroplankton (2005, Nintendo DS) | DIRECTION |
| SimTunes (1996, Windows) | Design Concept |
| Otocky (1987, NES) | Sedic |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 3 games with Shigeru Miyamoto
- 3 games with Toru Osawa
- 3 games with Tsunekazu Ishihara
- 2 games with Charles Martinet
- 2 games with Teiya Ichiryusai
- 2 games with Keith Silverstein
- 2 games with Susumu Tanaka
- 2 games with Ikue Ōtani
- 2 games with Lauren Landa
- 2 games with Jay Ward
Companies
- 3 games with Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- 3 games with Nintendo of Europe GmbH
- 3 games with Nintendo of America Inc.
- 2 games with Sora Ltd.
- 2 games with Nintendo UK
- 2 games with Nortec Multimedia A.E.
- 2 games with Nintendo Phuten Company, Ltd.
- 2 games with Nintendo of Canada Ltd.
- 2 games with Nintendo France SARL
- 2 games with Core Gaming Systems (Pty) Ltd
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