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Yuji Naka (中 裕司, Naka Yūji, born September 17, 1965), credited in some games as YU2, is a Japanese former video game programmer, designer and producer.He is the co-creator of the Sonic the Hedgehog series and was the president of Sonic Team at Sega until his departure in 2006.
Sonic the Hedgehog [a] 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 anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist.
He designed the character Miles "Tails" Prower in an internal contest hosted by Sonic Team. [1] He originally named the character "Miles Prower", however SEGA wanted to call the character "Tails". SEGA and Yamaguchi reached a compromise on his name, with "Miles Prower" being the character's full legal name and "Tails" being his nickname.
"Sonic World" was part of an experiment to see how a Sonic the Hedgehog game would work in full 3D. [24] It served as a prototype for the first fully 3D Sonic game, Sonic Adventure, which began development for the Saturn but was released on its successor, the Dreamcast, in 1998. [22] "Sonic World" uses the same engine as Nights.
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric [b] is a 2014 action-adventure platform video game developed by Big Red Button and published by Sega for the Wii U. [4] Along with Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal and Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice for the Nintendo 3DS, it is a spin-off of Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series and part of the Sonic Boom franchise, which consists of an animated television series, which the games ...
[1] [2] Although Yuji Naka created the original tech demo around which Sonic 's gameplay was based, the character in his prototype was a ball that lacked any specific features. [3] Sonic Team considered numerous potential animal mascots before deciding on Ohshima's design, with an armadillo or hedgehog being the top choices because their spikes ...
Just before the College Football Playoff kicks off, Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger, and SI's Forde provide a final preview of the 12-team bracket. They discuss the potential for five to six different ...
Sonic Colors concept art picturing Sonic (on the left) and Yacker (on the right) One of the first ideas was the setting should be an amusement park; Sonic Team then realized that "any sort of terrestrial amusement park would be too small to contain Sonic's adventures."