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Akinori Nishiyama (西山 彰則 Nishiyama Akinori?) is a Sega employee that has been involved with the company since the Master System era and has undertaken a variety of roles. Nishiyama was originally a test player (usually credited as Work Nishi) whose first title was the original Phantasy Star. He may also have been known variably as Chiemushi and Locky P.
He later then served as Director for the majority of Sonic the Hedgehog series titles released for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS.
He served as the head for Sonic Team between Yuji Naka's resignation in 2006 and Takashi Iizuka's assignment to the role in 2010. Afterwards, he was appointed as the general manager for titles from Sega.
Credits[]
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16 bit, 1992) - Special Thanks
- Sonic Jam (1997) - Special Thanks
- Sonic Adventure (1998) - Story event director, Scenario writer
- Sonic Shuffle (2000) - Supervisor
- Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) - Recording Coordinator (Japanese), Product Support
- Sonic Advance (2001) - Director
- Sonic Advance 2 (2002) - Director
- Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (2002) - Product Coordinator (Tiny Chao Garden), Recording Coordinator (Japanese), Product Support
- Sonic Pinball Party (2003) - Director
- Sonic Heroes (2003) - Recording Coordinator, Product Support
- Sonic Advance 3 (2004) - Director
- Sonic Gems Collection (2005) - Chief Producer
- Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) - Development Support
- Sonic Rush (2005) - Director
- Sonic Riders (2006) - Recording Coordinator
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) (2006) - Chief Producer
- Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007) - Chief Producer
- Sonic Rush Adventure (2007) - Producer
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (2007) - General Producer
- Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (2008) - Recording Coordinator, Chief Producer
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008) - Supervisor (Original Games)
- Sega Superstars Tennis (2008) - Special Thanks
- Sonic: Night of the Werehog (2008) - Special Thanks
- Sonic Unleashed (2008) - Creative Producer
- Sonic and the Black Knight (2009) - Chief Producer
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (2009) - Sonic Character Supervisor
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Producers | Akinori Nishiyama · Takashi Iizuka · Yuji Naka · Yoji Ishii |
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Programmers | Takahiro Hamano · Takeshi Sakakibara · Tetsu Katano · Yuji Naka · Yoshihisa Hashimoto |
Designers | Eitaro Toyoda · Hirokazu Yasuhara · Kazuyuki Hoshino · Makoto Yonezu · Manabu Kusunoki · Naoto Ohshima · Nobuhiko Honda · Hiroshi Miyamoto · Sachiko Kawamura · Shinichi Higashi · Shiro Maekawa · Shun Nakamura · Takashi Yuda · Yasushi Yamaguchi · Yoshitaka Miura · Yuji Uekawa |
Directors | Hiroshi Nishiyama · Kenjiro Morimoto · Morio Kishimoto · Takashi Iizuka |
Sound engineers | Hideaki Kobayashi · Jun Senoue · Kenichi Tokoi · Mariko Nanba · Masaru Setsumaru · Naofumi Hataya · Takahito Eguchi · Tatsuyuki Maeda · Teruhiko Nakagawa · Tomoya Ohtani |
Other | Tomoko Kanemoto · Yui Karasuno |