Takashi Tezuka
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He's not as visible as a Miyamoto or Aonuma, but in EAD hierarchy he's probably second only to Miyamoto. Tezuka was the director of Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, for instance, though he's since moved on to producerhood.