Yoshihisa Kishimoto

Yoshihisa Kishimoto (岸本 良久, Kishimoto Yoshihisa, born September 17, 1961) is a Japanese video game developer known primarily for his involvement with Technos Japan Corp. He is best known for his work on beat 'em up games, as the original creator of the Kunio-kun and Double Dragon game franchises, having worked on the original arcade and NES installments in both series. While not the first side-scrolling martial arts action games (predated by Kung-Fu Master), they established the general template and conventions used by the beat 'em up genre since the late 1980s.^[1] He has thus sometimes been referred to as the grandfather of the beat 'em up genre. He is currently the President and Representative Director of a game company called Plophet.