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Kensuke Tanabe Talks Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Metts, Jonathan, Daniel Bloodworth, and Matt Casamassina. 2004. “Kensuke Tanabe Talks Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.” Nintendo World Report (Planet GameCube), E3 2004 interview. Nintendo World Report.

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NWR interview with Kensuke Tanabe (2004)
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Interview with Kensuke Tanabe by Jonathan Metts, Daniel Bloodworth and Matt Casamassina, translated by NOA's Tim O'Leary. Tanabe gives his Nintendo background.
Notes
Tanabe says he joined Nintendo in Japan in 1986, was in EAD, and that "The first game I directed was Super Mario 2 on the NES." Useful for the director credit.

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Kensuke Tanabe directed the game. He said in 2004 that it was the first game he directed, and Kohler's 2011 report calls him its director. Kohler writes that Doki Doki Panic was made by the Mario team.Tanabe's backgroundInterview