Yuji naka, naoto ohshima, and hirokazu yasuhara
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Naka, Yuji
Personal
Born c. 1966. Education: High school graduate. Hobbies and other interests:Formula One racing, fast cars.
Addresses
Office—Sega Corporation, 1-2-12 Haneda, Ohta-ku, Tokyo, 144-8531, Japan.
Career
Video game designer and developer. Sega Corporation, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1984—. Programmer, designer, director, producer, president and CEO of Sonic Team (wholly owned subsidiary of Sega Corp.), Tokyo, Japan, 2001—. Worked on games Ghouls and Ghosts, F16 Fighting Falcon, Phantasy Star, Space Harrier, Black Belt, the Village of Spiritual World, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic and Knuckles, Phantasy Star Online, Chu-Chu Rocket!, Samba de Amigo, NiGHTS, Sonic Battle, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Fever, and Puyo Puyo Fever.
Awards, Honors
Lifetime Achievement Award, International Game Developers Association, 2002; named Greatest Video Game of All Time, Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers' Association, 2003, for Sonic the Hedgehog.
Credits
STORY DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER; VIDEO GAMES
Phantasy Star, Sega (Tokyo, Japan), 1988.
Phantasy St aka: Muuuu Yuji, Yūji Naka, 中 裕司 Yuji Naka (中 裕司) was born 17th September, 1965 and is the head of Sonic Team. He joined SEGA in the mid-eighties when Namco wouldn't hire him because he didn't have a college degree. His first project was Girl's Garden, an action game for the SG-1000. It was written in collaboration with Hiroshi Kawaguchi. After that, Naka worked on a number of Mark III titles, including the first two Phantasy Star games. He achieved his status as SEGA's Shigeru Miyamoto for his programming work on Sonic the Hedgehog and masterminding a number of other major SEGA titles, including NiGHTS Into Dreams and Phantasy Star Online. In early games he was often credited as "YU2" (in reference to Yu Suzuki) and "Muuu Yuji". He left SEGA in May 2006 to found independent developer PROPE, Ltd.. Naka was arrested in November 2022 for insider trading related to Dragon Quest Tact, essentially ending his career spanning almost four decades. Displaying most recent · Vie Japanese video game developer (born 1965) Yuji Naka (中 裕司, Naka Yūji, born September 17, 1965), credited in some games as YU2, is a Japanese video game developer. He is the co-creator of the Sonic the Hedgehog series and was the president of Sonic Team at Sega until his departure in 2006. Naka joined Sega in 1984 and worked on games including Girl's Garden (1985) and Phantasy Star II (1989). He was the lead programmer of the original Sonic games on the Mega Drive in the early 1990s, which greatly increased Sega's market share. After developing Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) in Japan, Naka moved to California to develop Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992), Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994) and Sonic & Knuckles (1994) with Sega Technical Institute. Naka returned to Japan to lead development on Sonic Team games including Nights into Dreams (1996), Burning Rangers (1998), Sonic Adventure (1998) and Phantasy Star Online (2000). After Sega left the console market in 2001, Naka remained as an executive officer and oversaw its output for the next five year
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Yuji Naka
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Credited on 80 games
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Yuji Naka
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