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This article pertains to the staff members behind Sonic the Hedgehog CD and its additional re-releases.
Sega Mega CD (Japan/PAL) release
Executive producer
Produced by
- Minoru Kanari,
- Makoto Oshitani
Director
- Naoto Oshima (BIGISLAND)
Program director
- Keiichi Yamamoto
Art director
- Hiroyuki Kawaguchi (Hiro.K)
Sound director
Game designers
- Hiroaki Chino (TINON),
- Kenichi Ono (Ax),
- Yuichiro Yokoyama,
- Takao Miyoshi,
- Akira Nishino
Character designer
Landscape designers
- Hiroyuki Kawaguchi (Hiro.K),
- Takumi Miyake,
- Masahiro Sanpei,
- Masato Nishimura,
- Hideaki Kurata
Special Stage designers
- Kazuyuki Hoshino,
- Yasushi Yamaguchi (Judy Totoya)
Special Stage programmer
- Keiichi Yamamoto
Animation programmers
- Yuichiro Mine (Proto.2),
- Eiji Horita
Animation visual directors
- Hiroyuki Kawaguchi (Hiro.K),
- Masahiro Sanpei
Visual design
- Kazuyuki Hoshino,
- Takumi Miyake
Chief programmer
- Matsuhide Mizoguchi
Programmers
- Yuichi Matsuoka,
- Hiroshi Takei,
- Tatsuya Satoh (HIC),
- Noritaka Yakita (HIC)
-Animation Staff-
Producers
- Yasuo Yamaguchi,
- Mutsumi Kido
Chief key animator
- Hisashi Eguchi (Studio Junio)
Key animators
- Tetsuya Kumagai,
- Toshiyuki Komaru,
- Yasuyuki Shimizu,
- Ichiro Furuichi,
- Kenji Kajiwara
Art director
- Shinzou Yuki
Camera director
- Masaru Banzai
Assistant production manager
- Kouichi Hirose
Production manager
- Kohji Sekiguchi
Director
- Yukio Kaizawa
In cooperation with
- Studio Junio
Produced by
-Opening theme-
Lyrics by
- Casey Rankin
Music by
- Naofumi Hataya
Vocals
-Ending theme-
(Cosmic Eternity - Believe in Yourself)
Lyrics by
Music by
Vocals
Producer
- Daikou Nagato (Being Co. LTD)
Director
- Ryo Watabe (Being Co., LTD)
Recorded at
- Studio Birdman,
- Mod Studio
BGM composed and arranged
Sound effects
- Yukifumi Makino
Sound programmer
- Yukifumi Makino
Promoter
- Hiroyuki Tanaka
Package designers
- Youichi Takahashi,
- Heyato Takebayashi
Illustrations
- Kazuyuki Hoshino
Special Thanks
- Hiroshi Kubota,
- Phenix Rie,
- Yoshiaki Kashima,
- Takenobu Mitsuyoshi,
- Masaru Setsumaru,
- Hijiri Aoki,
- Steve Ray Burton,
- James Michael Spahn,
- Kounosuke Yoshio,
- Tomoko Sasaki,
- Aki Kamata,
- Masato Nishimura,
- Akira Funada,
- Fujio Minegishi,
- Jina Ishiwatari,
- Katsufumi Yoshimori,
- Tetsuo Akagi,
- Kaeko Itoh,
- Hiroshi Nakatani,
- Hiromi Fukuda,
- Etsuko Yamada,
- Ryuichiro Kutuzawa,
- Takashi Iwade,
- Michikazu Tamamura,
- Masumi Uchida,
- Tohru Watanuki,
- Makiko Suzuki
Presented by
Sega CD (North America) release
Executive producer
Produced by
Director
Program director
- Keiichi Yamamoto
Art director
Sound director
Game designers
- Hiroaki Chino,
- Kenichi Ono,
- Yuichiro Yokoyama,
- Takao Miyoshi,
- Akira Nishino
Character designer
Landscape designers
- Hiroyuki Kawaguchi,
- Takumi Miyake,
- Masahiro Sanpei,
- Masato Nishimura,
- Hideaki Kurata
Special Stage designers
Special Stage programmer
- Keiichi Yamamoto
Animation programmers
- Yuichiro Mine,
- Eiji Horita
Animation visual directors
- Hiroyuki Kawaguchi,
- Masahiro Sanpei
Visual design
- Kazuyuki Hoshino,
- Takumi Miyake
Chief programmer
- Matsuhide Mizoguchi
Programmers
- Yuichi Matsuoka,
- Hiroshi Takei,
- Tatsuya Satoh (HIC),
- Noritaka Yakita (HIC)
BGM composer and arranged
Sound effects
Sound programmer
Development support
- Al Nilsen
Promoter
- Hiroyuki Tanaka
-Animation Staff-
Producers
- Yasuo Yamaguchi,
- Mutsumi Kido
Chief key animator
- Hisashi Eguchi (Studio Junio)
Key animators
- Tetsuya Kumagai,
- Toshiyuki Komaru,
- Yasuyuki Shimizu,
- Ichiro Furuichi,
- Kenji Kajiwara
Art director
- Shinzou Yuki
Camera director
- Masaru Banzai
Assistant production manager
- Kouichi Hirose
Production manager
- Kohji Sekiguchi
Director
- Yukio Kaizawa
In cooperation with
- Studio Junio
Produced by
Director
- Ryo Watabe (Being Co., Ltd)
Recorded at
- Studio Birdman,
- Mod Studio
-Secret Special Stage-
Plan
- Hiroaki Chino
Sprite Design
- Kazuyuki Hoshino
Scroll design
- Yasushi Yamaguchi
Sound
Program
- Keiichi Yamamoto
Special Thanks
- 3Pei,
- Majin,
- 100Shiki,
- Syuji Takahashi
-Special Edition for North America-
Music Composed and Produced by
Vocals by
- -Pastiche-
- Sandy Cressman,
- Jenny Meltzer,
- Becky West
Drums and percussion by
- Brad Kaiser
Guitars by
- Erik Frykman
Recorded and Mixed at
- Sega Multimedia Studio,S.O.A
Additional music composed and produced by
- Sterling
Bass
- Bobby Vega
Percusion
- Armando Peraza
Engineer
- Charles Albert
Assistant engineers
- Roosevelt Hoover,
- Maurice Jackson
Recorded and mixed at
- Intermix
Special thanks
- Naofumi Hataya,
- Masafumi Ogata,
- Daikou Nagato (Being Co., Ltd),
- Hiroshi Kubota,
- Phenix Rie,
- Yoshiaki Kashima,
- Takenobu Mitsuyoshi,
- Masaru Setsumaru,
- Hifiri Aoki,
- Steve Ray Burton,
- James Michael Spahn,
- Kounosuke Yoshio,
- Tomoko Sasaki,
- Aki Kamata,
- Masato Nishimura,
- Akira Funada,
- Fujio Minegishi,
- Jina Ishiwatari,
- Katsufumi Yoshimori,
- Tetsuo Akagi,
- Kaeko Itoh,
- Hiromi Nakatani,
- Hiroshi Fukuda,
- Etsuko Yamada,
- Ryuichiro Kutsuzawa,
- Takashi Lwade,
- Michikazu Tamamura,
- Masumi Uchida,
- Tohru Watanuki,
- Makoto Suzuki,
- Audix,
- Digital Support Group,
- Fairlight E.S.P,
- Opcode,
- Otari,
- Zoom
Presented by
1996 PC release
2011 re-release stuff
NOTE: The first set of staff credits are the same North American list from the original Sega CD release. The second set of credits for the 2011 re-release are featured right after completing the game as Tails.
Original game developed by
Developed for digital platforms by
- Blit Software & Christian Whitehead
Lead engineer
Platform development
- Miguel Angel Horna
- Miguel Angel Pastor
- Javier Campo
- Jorge Cabezas
- Tony Cabello
Sega Europe limited staff credits
CEO
- Mike Hayes
SVP of production
- Gary Dunn
SVP of marketing
- Gary Knight
Technical director
- Chris Southall
Senior producer
- Charlie O'Connor
Producer
- Justyn Mclean
Publishing manager
- Lee Harris
SVP of business planning and operations
- Yusuke Suai
Head of business analysis
- Martin Benneyworth
Purchasing manager
- Caroline Van Venrooji
Production manager
- Natalie Forsyth
Head of marketing
- Matt Eyre
Assistant brand manager
- Ben Finch
Digital PR executive
- Amy White
Head of legal & business affairs
- Nicky Ormrod
Legal counsel
- Polly Bennett
Legal executive
- Saad Choudri
- Marine Cabour
Licencing manager
- Nivin Emeran
Head of development services
- Mark Le Breton
Production manager
- Ben Howell
Resource manager
- Ben Jackson
Localisation manager
Marta Lois Gonzalez
Localisation project manager
- Giuseppe Rizzo
Translators
- Antonella Marras
- Antonio Catanese
- Carole Kunzelmann
- Jesus Alvarez
- Nicole Thomer
- Tatjana Nath
- Daniela Kaynert
- Luis J. Paredes
- Ronan Salon
- Sebastián Pérez Salguero
- Sophie Paléologos
- Giuseppe Rosa
Mastering, equipment and submissions manager
- Dave Pither
Senior mastering technician
- Phil Adams
Assistant mastering technician
- Mike Veness
- Gara Gifford Pitcher
Project lead
- Tristan Carrée
Functionality supervisor
- Julie Metior
Project monitor
- David Fielding
Senior tester
- James Hovell
Compliance supervisor
- Darran Wall
Compliance coordinators
- Mohammed Ajaib
- Sliva Allari
- Chris Barnett
Compliance senior technicians
- Aaron Caney
- Martin Walker
Compliance technicians
- Alexander Abbott
- Anthony Phillips
- Paul Hann
- Leo Paine
- Olly White
- Kevin Murphy
- Mohammed Shahin Uddin
- Louis Li
Language QA supervisor
- Alssandro Irranga
Language team lead
- Ruggero Varisco
Language testers
- Sébastien Kernst
- Riccardo Gargiulo
- Lars Lennertz
- Diego Mart Nez Gómez
Administration and finance coordinator
- Chris Bien
QA Administrator
- Chris Geiles
Shift monitor
- Chris Bailey
- Tony Langan
Sega UK
UK managing director
- John Clark
UK senior product manager
- Ben Walker
UK PR managers
- Fay Burgin
- Stefan Mcgarry
UK channel marketing manager
- Clare Hawkins
Sega International
International Sales director
- Alison Gould
Head of international sales
- Simon Inch
International account executive
- Ben Prouty
International sales administrator
- Alice Jakubiak
Sega Germany
Managing director
- James Rebours
Marketing manager
- Henning Otto
Product manager
- Chinh Vu
PR executive
- Susanne Ortega
Sega Spain
Managing director
- Javier Fuentes
Marketing manager
- Alex Fernández
PR manager
- Diana Radetski
Sega Benelux
Managing director
- Jurgen Post
Head of marketing
- Johan De Windt
PR manager
- Roel Peeters
Sega France
Dircteur général Europe du sud
- James Rebours
Responsable marketing
- Thomas Grellier
Chef de produits
- Alexander Chapt
Responsable RP
- Franck Sébastien
Attachée de presse
- Alexandra Fiore
Sega Australia
Managing director
- Darren Macbeth
Marketing manager
- Garth Gower
Junior product manager
- Neroli Harpur
PR manager
- Vispi Bhopti
PR executive
- Rebecca Charalambous
Sega of America
Assistant producer
- Stephen Yee
Brand manager
- Ken Balough
- Mia Purtino
QA manager
- Mark Cartwright
QA supervisors
- Demetrius Griffin
- Shawn Dobbins
QA lead
- Lee Frohman
- Teressa Quest
QA assistant lead
- Dennis Constantino
QA testers
- Terry Campbell
- Long Pham
- Jose Maldonado
- Jefferey Campbell
- Bryan Bacorro
- Rocco Vienna
- Adam J. Piskel
- Euguene Smilovitsky
- Jack Beacom
- Kyle Brabender
- Sam Soukkampha
- Morgan Perry
- Sean Lavender
- Joseph Baldenweck
- Eliseo Carranza
Standards supervisor
- Stephen Akana
Standards lead
- Dan Buchman
Standards assistant leads
- Tim Erbil
- Max Atturio
Standards testers
- Tony Stamer
- Robet Hamiter
CEO
- Mike Hayes
President/COO Sega West
Chairman
Executive VP of digital business planning
- Haruki Satomi
VP strategic planning & business development
- Rob Lightner
Director of product development
- Todd Hartwig
Publishing manager
- Kartin Darolle
Development operation director
- John Merlino
Mastering lab supervisor
- Rey Casto Buzon
Mastering lab technician
- Christopher Rilles
Sega Corporate
Overseas consumer business
- Satomi Okuma
- Eriko Nakamura
Special thanks
- Takashi Iizuka
- Eitaro Toyoda
- Adrian Daly
- Renee Teloka
- Rick Danto
- Simon Thomley
- Brandan West
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