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Takashi Iizuka (飯塚 隆, Iizuka Takashi) (born March 16, 1970) is a Japanese video game director, producer, designer and screenwriter. Since 2008, Iizuka has been the vice president of product development for the Sonic the Hedgehog series at Sega, as well as the head of Sonic Team [1] although he has been working on games in the Sonic series since 1994.
November 2, 1986. Retired. February 21, 2019. Takayuki Iizuka (飯塚 孝之, Iizuka Takayuki, born August 2, 1966), better known by his ring name Takashi Iizuka (飯塚 高史, Iizuka Takashi), is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his 33-year career in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was a three-time IWGP ...
It was founded when twelve Sonic Team members, including Takashi Iizuka, relocated to San Francisco, California, in 1999, [6] and was a subsidiary of SONICTEAM, Ltd. by 2000. [2] The team worked on game development, translation, [54] and market studies in the United States, [55] until they returned to Japan and merged back into Sonic Team in ...
[30] [11] Iizuka felt Arzest was a natural fit due to their experience developing 2D games for Nintendo. [27] He compared Ohshima's return to a family reunion and said that he had retained his design sensibilities from the Genesis era. [30] [33] Several Sonic Team members, including Iizuka, flew from Burbank, California to Yokohama, Japan to ...
Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka and series co-creator Yuji Naka led development, with Iizuka serving as writer and director and Naka as producer. Iizuka, who had worked on the Sonic the Hedgehog series since 1993, targeted a younger audience with previous Sonic games and wanted to attract an older audience with Shadow the Hedgehog. [34]
Takashi Iizuka, the lead game designer, felt that, with Hoshino, they captured the style used for the character in the original game. [37] Sonic Team decided to give all characters in the game voices as Iizuka believed that full dialogue helps add depth to both the story and gameplay. [5]
Shadow the Hedgehog. Shadow the Hedgehog [a] is a character who appears in Sega 's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. He was created by Takashi Iizuka and Shiro Maekawa and first appeared in Sonic Adventure 2 (2001). Within Sonic 's fictional universe, Shadow is an anthropomorphic black hedgehog created by Professor Gerald Robotnik, the grandfather ...
Yuji Naka. Yuji Naka (中 裕司, Naka Yūji, born September 17, 1965), credited in some games as YU2, is a former Japanese video game programmer, designer and producer. 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 ...