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Jim Wornell is a graphic designer that worked at Nintendo of America from 1990-2006. He designed packaging, manuals and artwork for several games, and scripted for some titles. He provided the voice of the announcer "Mr. Zero" in F-Zero X for the Nintendo 64. Wornell was credited on the Nintendo 3DS ports of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Star Fox 64, despite having no involvement with them; they are likely legacy credits.
Wornell applied for a customer service job at Nintendo with a friend in his sophomore year of college, and was hired on the spot answering phone calls. After a year, he became a Gameplay Counsellor, then a product tester, associate producer of Japan-developed games, and finally a graphic designer. He played the original Metroid when it came out in 1987.
After leaving Nintendo, Wornell worked as a graphic designer for Zetron, a communications company based in Redmond, Washington. He is currently Director of Marketing Operations at ALL-COMM Technologies, Inc. Wornell was interviewed by Kiwi Talkz and DidYouKnowGaming? in 2022.
Metroid Prime series[]
Wornell created the logo of Metroid Prime, which went through 53 iterations before settling on the final version. Some of these included a red or blue ball behind the game's name, without the Screw Attack S symbol. [1] It was the most expensive logo Nintendo had ever made.
Wornell is credited under special thanks in Prime. Because his logo was so popular at Nintendo, he was tasked with making the logos of Metroid Fusion, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime Hunters as well (he was not credited in any of these games). The Fusion logo was easy because the developers had a Metroid font ready to use, so all it needed was the ball and S. For Echoes, the only changes needed from Prime was in removing the S and the color of the ball, for which black was selected due to the game's light and dark motif. A white line was also added around it to represent Aether.[1] The logos are used on all international covers of those games, despite having completely different boxart in Japan.[2]
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- ^ a b Kiwi Talkz. #134 - Jim Wornell Interview (Graphic Design, Ocarina Of Time, Metroid Prime, Voice Acting etc.) YouTube. May 2, 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2022. (starts at 8:00)
- ^ DidYouKnowGaming? "Metroid Prime Devs Share Secrets (EXCLUSIVE)". YouTube. April 17, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2022. (starts at 16:23)