This article pertains to the staff members behind Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and its additional re-releases.
Executive producer
Producer
Director
Chief programmer
Game planner
- Hirokazu Yasuhara ("Carol Yas")
- Masaharu Yoshii (uncredited)
Programmer
- Mark Cerny (uncredited)
Character design and chief artist
- Yasushi Yamaguchi ("Judy Totoya")
Assistant programmers
- Bill Willis,
- Masanobu Yamamoto
Object placement
- Hirokazu Yasuhara,
- Takahiro Anto,
- Yutaka Sugano
Special Stage object placement
- Yutaka Sugano
Zone artists
- Yasushi Yamaguchi,
- Craig Stitt,
- Brenda Ross,
- Jina Ishiwatari,
- Tom Payne,
- Phenix Rie
Special Stage art and CG
- Tim Skelly,
- Peter Morawiec
Music composer
- Masato Nakamura (©1992 Dreams Come True)
Sound programmer
- Tomoyuki Shimada
Sound assistants
- Yukifumi Makino ("Macky"),
- Hiroshi Kubota ("Jimita"),
- Yoshiaki Kashima ("Milpo"),
- Izuho Numata ("Ippo"),
- Sachio Ogawa ("S.O"),
- Masaru Setsumaru ("Oyz"),
- Masayuki Nagao ("N.Gee")
Project assistants
- Syuichi Katagi,
- Takahiro Hamano,
- Yoshiki Ooka,
- Steve Woita
Game manual
- Youichi Takahashi,
- Carol Ann Hanshaw
Executive supporters
- Daizaburou Sakurai,
- Hisashi Suzuki,
- Thomas Kalinske,
- Fujio Minegishi,
- Takaharu Utsunomiya
Special thanks to
- Cindy Claveran,
- France Tantiado,
- Daisuke Saito,
- Kunitake Aoki,
- Tsuneko Aoki,
- Deborah McCracken,
- Tatsuo Yamada,
- Rick Macaraeg,
- Akinori Nishiyama ("Locky P"),
- Masaaki Kawamura
Presented by
2013 re-release staff
Original game developed by
Developed for mobile platforms by
Lead programmer
Programmer
- Jane-Evelyn "CHIBI-TECH" Nisperos (M2 Co, Ltd)
SEGA OF AMERICA
Chairman
CEO
- Tatsuyuki Miyazaki
CCO
- Masnao Maeda
COO/CFO/President
- Jogn Cheng
VP of digital business
- Chris Olson
Director of digital planning
- Naoki Kameda
Director of mobile business
- David Zemke
3D Sonic the Hedgehog 2 staff
Original game developed by
DLC version developed by
Directors
- Naoki Horil
- Tsuyoshi Matsuoka
Planners
- Takaaki Hashimoto
- Ken-iciro Kikuchi
- Tsuyoshi Matsuoka
3D co-ordinator
- Youichirou Watanabe
Polygon co-ordinators
- Taiyo Mamada
- Shintaro Ishikura
Programmers
- Youichirou Watanabe
- Shintaro Ishikura
- Tetsuya Abe
- Hiroyuki Sawi
- Akira Salto
- Emiko Iunchi
- Makoto Harashino
- Nobuhisa Shinoda
- Minoru Kubota
- Jumpei Isshiki
- Masaki Goto
Graphic designers
- Naoki Takahashi
- Keisuke Koga
- Takuya Watanabe
Sound designers
- Manabu Namiki
- Tatsuhiko Kasuga
Libary & tools
- Jun Okada
- Toshinori Yuui (WAMSOFT)
- Go Watanabe (WAMSOFT)
Project manager
- Takehiro Kawachi
SEGA of America Inc.
Chief operating officer
- John Cheng
EVP of publishing & strategy
- Yusuke Suai
Director of production
- Todd Hartwig
Producer
- Samuek G Mullen
Mastering lab supervisor
- Rey Buzon
Group marketing manager
- David DePaulis
Senior brand manager
- Mai Kawaguchi
Associate brand manager
- Stephen Akana
Community manager
- Julian Mehfeld
Senior PR manager
- Kerstin Hunt
Video editor
- Arthur Swidzinski
Web manager
- Michael Dobbins
Senor graphic designer
- Marco Garcia
First party coordinator
- Andrew Wong
SEGA Europe Ltd.
Head of studio localisation and ESD
- Charlie Harris
Producer
- Renée Teloka
Digital product manager
- Lewis Herbert
Senior business manager
- Anh Luong
Head of QA & localisation QA
- Gulam Khan
Production manager
- Teresa right
Localisation manager
- Mart Lois Gonzalez
Localisation project supervisor
- Gabriel Cassas
Translators
- Anais Maniaval
- Gwladys Gaye
- Banjamin Brunet
Mastering & equipment manager
- Francesco Fraulo
Senior mastering technician
- Mike Veness
Assistant mastering technicians
- Andrew Doran
- Danny Florey
- Shaun Young
Project lead
- Adrian Daly
Compliance coordinator
- Mohammed Ajiab
Compliance tester
- Aaron Wright
Localisation QA team lead
- Ruggero Varisco
Language QA tester
- Sarah Breton
SEGA OF JAPAN
Producers
- Kafasei Shimomura
- Yosuke Okunari
SOJ quality assurance
- Akira Nishikawa
- Osamu Sato
- Atsushi Hirano
- Hidaka Ogasawara
- Jiro Kimura
- Kazuya Miyazaki
- Takumi Shinya
- Takehito Kimura
- Kazuhiko Morii
- Toshiro Yuda
- Kazuki Muto
Software manual production
- Yoshiro Sakuta
- Masato Shimamura
- Colin Restall
- Hiroki Osawa
Product management
- Takayoshi Ohuchi
- Takafumi Ueoro
- Koichi Hanatete
1st party relation
- Toyohisa Hiwatari
- Yusuke Asano
- Chiaki Furuya
PR
- Mamoru Kodama
- Sho Nanmoku
Promotion
- Kousuke Honma
- Ikuo Ishizaka
Web design
- Noriko Sanda
Localization support
- Shintaro Tanioka
- Emi Yamane
- Nobuyuki Minato
Special thanks
- Takashi Iizuka
- Yuji Uekawa
- Eltaro Toyoda
- Emiko Mikuni
- Yuji Naka (PROPE)
Senior producers
- Akira Nishino
- Yoichi Shimosato
Chief producer
- Osamu Ohashi
Exective producers
- Haruki Satomi
- Kenji Matsubara
- Toshihiro Nagoshi
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