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'' ' ` nintendo company limited r & d1 '' -lsb- http://www.nintendo.co.jp www.nintendo.co.jp -rsb- kyoto , japan 100px makoto kano -lrb- video game designer -rrb-
 30 october 1950 nintendo -lrb- 1974 -- -rrb- makoto kano nintendo supervisor game designer
makoto kano -lrb- video game designer -rrb-

, also credited as makoto kanoh pre-1995 , is a japanese game designer and supervisor .
he was born in kyoto , japan .
kano began working for nintendo in 1974 .
he was one of the original designers in nintendo 's creative department .
originally , he designed toys and board games before working on the nintendo beam gun series .
kano eventually became one of the lead designers of the `` game & watch '' series .
by 1984 , he was heavily involved in several nintendo r&d 1 games , including `` hogan 's alley '' , `` gyromite '' , and more specifically the `` metroid '' , `` kid icarus '' , and `` famicom wars '' series .
some other projects he has worked on at nintendo include `` super metroid '' , the super scope for the super nintendo entertainment system , and `` mario & wario '' .
kano is credited with creating several early nintendo characters during the 1980s .
ultimately , his best known achievement may have been creating the concepts of the metroid , famicom wars , and kid icarus universe .
