Sonic Advance/Staff

This article pertains to the staff members behind Sonic Advance.

Sonic Team

Created by

• Sonic Team

Producer

• Yuji Naka

Director

• Akinori Nishiyama

Art director

• Yuji Uekawa

Technical director

• Takahiro Hamano

Designers

• Sachiko Kawamura,
• Kazuko Ito,
• Makoto Yonezu

Programmers

• Yoshihisa Hashimoto,
• Takaaki Saito

Executive supervisor

• Tetsu Kayama

Executive producer

• Hideki Sato

Dimps

Developed by

• Dimps

Producer

• Hiroshi Matsumoto

Line Producer

• Koichi Sakita

Planners

• Yukihiro Higashi,
• Masaaki Yamagiwa

Programmers

• Shinichiro Shibusawa,
• Hirofumi Kono,
• Hiroki Yoshitake,
• Katsuya Kuramoto

Designers

• Kazuhiko Yamamoto,
• Yuko Yamanoue,
• Etsuko Hosukawa,
• Toru Nakanishi,
• Sadaki Matsumoto

Sound

• Hironobu Inagaki,
• Atsuyoshi Isemura

Special thanks

• Masahisa Naganuma,
• Takayuki Sakamoto

Sound created by

• Wave Master

Sound creators

• Tatsuyuki Maeda,
• Yutaka Minobe

"Scrap Brain Zone"
"Star Light Zone"
"Power Up"
"Boss"
from Sonic the Hedgehog
"Emerald Hill Zone(2P)"
"Boss"
from Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Music composed & arranged remodeling by

• Masato Nakamura
  (Dreams Come True)
  DCTgarden.com
  Dreams Come True
  by
  the courtesy of
  Virgin Records America/
  TOSHIBA-EMI,LTD

Sega Corporation

Promotion management

• Masanao Maeda,
• Hiroyuki Miyazaki,
• Seijiro Sannabe,
• Hideki Yokaichiya,
• Yasushi Yamashita

Product development

• Yoshiki Ohka

Marketing

• Yasunobu Masahiro,
• Naoko Ohka,
• Takayoshi Ohuchi

Publicity

• Yasushi Nagumo,
• Mariko Takeda

Marketing research

• Tsuyoshi Sawada,
• Ayako Hino

Manual production

• Yoshihiro Sakuta,
• Chieko Nakamura,
• Makoto Nishino,
• Toshiki Yamaguchi,
• Satoru Ishigami

Test team

• Akira Nishikawa,
• Hiroyuki Miyano,
• Yutaka Kawasaki

Sega of America

Executive management

• Peter Moore

Localization producers

• Osamu Shibayama

Test lead

• Brian Ivanhoe

Special thanks

• Rich Briggs,
• Noah Musler,
• Takashi Iizuka,
• Roxana Hui

Sega of Europe

Executive management

• Yoshio Sakai

Director Of PD

• Kats Sato

Producers manager

• Aude Donnan

Localization producer

• Kuniyo Matsumoto

Lead tester

• Matt Brooks

Product marketing manager

• Jim Pride

Product manager

• Mathew Quaeck

Presented by

• Sega

Original Game ©SEGA
©SONICTEAM/SEGA,2002

THQ product development

VP-product development

• Michael Rubinelli^[1]

Executive producer

• Brian Christian^[1]

Producer

• Derek C. Smith^[1]

Director of quality assurance

• Jeremy S. Barnes^[1]

Lead tester

• AJ Henandez^[1]

Testers

• Lyle Topete^[1]
• Gjalen Givan^[1]
• Efren Santana^[1]
• Kirk Honore^[1]

THQ marketing

VP - marketing

• Peter Dille^[1]

Group marketing manager

• Alison Quirion^[1]

Associate product manager

• Heather Hall^[1]

Director of public relations

• Liz Pieri^[1]

Public relations manager

• Reilly Brennan^[1]

Director of creative services

• Kathy Helgason^[1]

Associate manager of creative services

• Kirk Somdal^[1]

Special thanks

Brian Farrell[1] Jeff Lapin[1] Alison Locke[1] Grmaine Gioia[1] Brandy Carrillo[1] Robert Riley[1]

Christian Kenney[1] Ricardo Fischer[1] Gardon Madison[1] Jack Suzuki[1] Paul Rivas[1] Stacey Mendoza[1]

References