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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.
According to Sonic the Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka, Michael Jackson was given a Galaxy Force arcade cabinet as a gift during his visit to Sega's offices in Japan. [16] The machine was later sold off in early 2009 when his Neverland Ranch was foreclosed. [17]
Yuji Naka, who co-created the video game "Sonic the Hedgehog," was arrested Friday in Tokyo on suspicion of insider trading involving Square Enix's mobile game "Dragon Quest Tact."
Sonic was created without the ability to swim because of a mistaken assumption by Yuji Naka that all hedgehogs could not do so. [21] A group of fifteen people started working on the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, and renamed themselves Sonic Team. The game's soundtrack was composed by Masato Nakamura of the band Dreams Come True.
[1] [3] Naka's prototype was expanded with Ohshima's character design and levels conceived by Yasuhara. [7] Sonic's color was chosen to match Sega's cobalt blue logo, and his red and white shoes were inspired by the cover of Michael Jackson's 1987 album Bad. [10] His personality was based on then-Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton's "can-do ...
the Michael Jackson Twitter account wrote… About 20 minutes into the broadcast, the estate posted a video of Jackson's Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour concert film on YouTube as their own ...
As part of Sega's "support program for independent game creators", Yuji Naka left Sega's Sonic Team studio to start his own studio, joined by ten Sonic Team members. It had a starting capital of 10 million yen, 10% of which came from Sega in exchange for the right of first refusal for publishing Prope games. [1]
In a Twitter Spaces conversation with friend and collaborator Alicia Keys, Jay-Z took questions from host Rob Markman on several The post Jay-Z calls Beyoncé ‘an evolution’ of Michael Jackson ...