Yoshiaki Koizumi, who is credited with popularizing target locking 3D enemies when he came up with Z-targeting on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, is 56. Shuntaro Furukawa himself, the current president of Nintendo, is 52. That makes him only one year younger than Super Smash Bros ' developer lead, Masahiro Sakurai. Even the producer of Splatoon, Hisashi Nogami, is 52 or 53 this year.