SIXTH WRITING

BIOGRAPHY: EIJI AONUMA

Eiji Aonuma was born in Nayoga, Japan, the 16^th of May, 1963. He had got a degree in design at the Fine Arts and Music’s National University in Tokio in 1988.

At the age of 25 he had started working in the videogame company, Nintendo. There he had met Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario Bros’ creator) and had worked with him creating sprites for Nintendo Entertainment System games, more known as NES, at the 1990s.

Thanks to this work Miyamoto named him the director of the “The legend of Zelda” department, which was created by Aonuma and Miyamoto. There Aonuma spent several years designing Zelda’s firsts videogames: “Ocarina of Time” and its sequel “Majora´s Mask”, both for the Nintendo 64 console. The first was appointed the Game of the Year in 1999. During the next years he designed “The Wind Waker” for the Nintendo Cube.

Later, he designed one of the most successful videogames for Wii, “The legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess”. Because of this game he was nominated Designer of the Year in Electronic Gaming Monthly´s 2006 1Up Awards.

After the Nintendo DS launch, he designed two videogames for this console: “The legend of Zelda: Spirits Tracks” and “Phantom Hourglass”.

In 2011 he launched “The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword”, and two years later, “The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds” for the Nintendo 3DS. The latter was nominated the Game of the Year in 2013.

His last work was producing “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” for the Wii U and Nintendo Switch, which was launched the 3^rd March 2017.