Masamichi Abe

Masamachi Abe (born January 24, 1969) is a Japanese video game director and planner at Nintendo Software Technology, and the director of Metroid Prime Hunters. He began his video game career working at Namco on the first three Tekken games, before joining Nintendo EAD in 1997. He directed 1080° Snowboarding and the first two Pikmin games before moving to Seattle, Washington to work at NST. Abe has been heavily involved in the design of the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series. In recent years his focus has shifted to Japanese game localization. He provided writing support for Metroid Prime: Federation Force, and was an assistant producer for Snipperclips - Cut it out, together!.
Abe and Colin Reed gave an interview to the Nintendo World Report on March 2, 2006 regarding Hunters.Bloodworth, Daniel. "NST Discusses Metroid Prime: Hunters" Nintendo World Report. March 2, 2006. Retrieved on April 26, 2020 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/interview/11162/nst-discusses-metroid-prime-hunters Bill Trinen served as Abe's translator. Abe commented that there was a chance for Hunters to influence the overall series, and that the new Bounty Hunters introduced in the game could be further explored in future installments.
His favorite character to play in the game is Kanden, but he admitted he is not very good at them.
==Gallery==
Nintendo Power Issue 202 (April 2006) 0049.jpg|An interview with Abe in Nintendo Power #202.
Nintendo Power Issue 202 (April 2006) 0052.jpg
==External links==
*Abe on MobyGames
*Abe on IMDb
*Abe on Giant Bomb
==References==
ru:Масамити Абэ
Category:Nintendo Software Technology employees
Category:Directors