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Hirokazu Yasuhara (安原 広和, Yasuhara Hirokazu, born October 12, 1965), also credited as Carol Yas, is a Japanese video game designer.He is best known for designing the gameplay and stages of the initial Sonic the Hedgehog video games for Sega Genesis in the 1990s, based on technical demos and engines programmed by Yuji Naka. [1]
Yuji Naka (中 裕司, Naka Yūji, born September 17, 1965), credited in some games as YU2, is a Japanese video game developer.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.
The Sonic the Hedgehog games had grossed over $5 billion in sales by 2014. [484] Series sales and free-to-play mobile game downloads totaled 920 million by 2019, [485] more than 1.14 billion by 2020, [486] over 1.6 billion by 2023, [487] and over 1.77 billion by 2024. [488]
Sonic the Hedgehog was created by the newly formed Sonic Team, a 15-member Sega subsidiary formed to create a character that could compete with Nintendo's Mario.The game's level design was handled by Hirokazu Yasuhara, [4] and the musical theme was composed by Masato Nakamura from the Japanese band Dreams Come True. [5]
Sonic the Hedgehog was the best-selling home video game of 1991, [108] with 2 million copies sold worldwide by the end of the year, [109] becoming Sega's best-selling home video game up until then. [110] In 1991, Sonic the Hedgehog helped Sega generate a gross revenue of $1 billion in console sales and capture a 65% share of the European ...
The team took the name Sonic Team in 1991 with the release of their first game, Sonic the Hedgehog, for the Sega Genesis. It was a major success and contributed to millions of Genesis sales. The next Sonic games were developed by Naka and Yasuhara in America at Sega Technical Institute, while Ohshima worked on Sonic CD in Japan. Naka returned ...
Whenever Blues found an email address for someone who had worked on a Sonic game -- any Sonic game -- they would overwhelm them with messages. (Some people got phone calls, too.) "Someone would track down someone who originally worked on Sonic 2, like a level artist," said James Hansen, a Sonic fan from the Forest of Dean, near Gloucester ...
Sonic the Hedgehog CD [a], simply known as Sonic CD, is a 1993 platform game developed and published by Sega for the Sega CD. As Sonic the Hedgehog, the player attempts to protect an extraterrestrial body, Little Planet, from Doctor Robotnik. Like other Sonic games, Sonic runs through themed levels while collecting rings and defeating robots.