Tadao Kageyama

Staff Information

• Name: Tadao Kageyama / KAGE
• Position: Director, Substream→Resort Anthem. Producer, Lincle→SPADA.

Biographical Information

KAGE has been with IIDX since the very beginning, acting as project lead and general director for almost every IIDX arcade release to date, from as early as beatmania IIDX 2nd style. His direction has helped bring IIDX to where it is today. KAGE also served as a programmer on the early IIDX titles. KAGE also lent himself to appear in a few early IIDX videos, such as Schlagwerk.

KAGE stepped down as director of the beatmania IIDX series after beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem, with Kenji Watanabe taking his place. He then served as the as producer of the series from beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle until beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA, with DJ Yoshitaka taking over as producer of the IIDX series beginning with beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL. It is currently unknown if KAGE still works for KONAMI following Yoshitaka's promotion.