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Sega CS R&D Dept. No. 2, doing business as Sonic Team, is a Japanese video game developer owned by Sega. Sonic Team is best known for its Sonic the Hedgehog series. Some Sonic Team games, such as the
Yuji Naka, programmer for Sonic Team and later division president
Naoto Ohshima, Sonic Team artist who designed the Sonic the Hedgehog character
Sonic the Hedgehog
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Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese developers Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara for Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorph
Sonic Team
…Sega CS R&D Dept. No. 2, doing business as Sonic Team, is a Japanese video game developer owned by Sega. Sonic Team is best known for its Sonic the Hedgehog series. Some Sonic Team games, such as the original Sonic games and Nights into Dreams (1996), are considered among the best ever made. The initial…
Sonic the Hedgehog co-creators: programmer Yuji Naka (left) and artist Naoto Ohshima
The original Sonic the Hedgehog was released on June 23, 1991, for the Sega Genesis, boosting Genesis sales dramatically.
Hirokazu Yasuhara (pictured in 2018) designed most of the Genesis Sonic games.
Few Sonic games were released for the Saturn. The cancellation of Sonic X-treme is considered a significant factor in the Saturn's commercial failure.