Akinori Nishiyama

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Akinori Nishiyama
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Role(s): Artist, Director[1], Producer
Twitter: @Locky_hca

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Akinori Nishiyama (西山彰則), also known by the alias Locky★P

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[4], is a Japanese game designer and Sega Games Director of Online Administration[1], most known for his long and notable history as a producer on a number of flagship Sega of Japan franchises like Phantasy Star and Puyo Puyo.

Career

Nishiyama joined Sega Enterprises in 1989 as a graphic designer, with some of his earliest notable works being Ghostbusters, Putter Golf and Ikasuze! Koi no Doki Doki Penguin Land MD

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[5]. He also had some involvement with the original Sonic the Hedgehog in 1991[2] and its 1992 sequel. He was best-known to hardcore Japanese gamers as Locky★P, an illustrator and interviewer who wrote for the Sega Players Enjoy Club newsletter

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[6] and later illustrated promotional comics for Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium, a game he was heavily involved with in terms of script and art.

Nishiyama retained his position as a scenario writer through the Saturn era with Magic Knight Rayearth. He then served once more as scenario writer for Sonic Adventure and reacquainted himself with the Phantasy Star series with Phantasy Star Online. Additionally, he served as Director for the majority of the Sonic the Hedgehog series titles released for Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS and Producer for the Puyo Puyo series.

He also acted as the managing head of Sonic Team between Yuji Naka's 2006 resignation and Takashi Iizuka coming on board in 2010. Afterwards he acted in general manager roles for titles from Sega. With Iizuka becoming the head of Sonic Team, Nishiyama would migrate the Phantasy Star Online franchise to Sega's CS3 division, acting as a Senior Producer for that series and allowing Sonic Team the freedom to focus entirely on further Sonic the Hedgehog & Puyo Puyo games.

Production history

Games

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Videos

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Music

Books

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Hardware

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Accessories

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Magazine articles

Main article: Akinori Nishiyama/Magazine articles.

Interviews

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Photographs

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External links

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