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Masaaki Somaki

Employment history: Sega Enterprises (1992^[1] – ) Divisions: Sega CS5 Sega AM2 Sega Software R&D Dept. 2 AM2 of CRI Sega-AM2 Hitmaker
Role(s): Designer, director

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Masaaki Somaki (杣木昌明) is a former designer and assistant director at Sega. After graduating high school, he worked part-time at an arcade in Shinjuku named Spream-Rei^[2]. After joining Sega in 1992, he worked on Game Gear titles, including co-designing Royal Stone: Hirakareshi Toki no Tobira at CS5 (with Ryushin Hamada, joined AM2 as a graphic designer, and later became the assistant director of Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Marz under Hitmaker. He seems to currently work at Pyramid Inc..

Production history

Games

Royal Stone: Hirakareshi Toki no Tobira (Game Gear; 1995) — Plan
Ninku (Game Gear; 1995) — Special Thanks (as M.Somaki)
Pro Striker Final Stage (Mega Drive; 1995) — Special thanks to^[3] (as 杣木昌明)
Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 5 Wolf Hawkfield (Saturn; 1995) — CG Designer^[4]
Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 6 Lau Chan (Saturn; 1995) — CG Designer^[5]
Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series The Final Dural (Saturn; 1996) — CG Designer
Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 7 Shun Di (Saturn; 1996) — CG Designer^[6]
Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 8 Lion Rafale (Saturn; 1996) — CG Designer^[7]
Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 9 Kage Maru (Saturn; 1996) — CG Designer^[8]
Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 10 Jeffry McWild (Saturn; 1996) — CG Designer^[9]
Virtua Fighter 3 (Model 3; 1996) — Stage Design, Modeling
Virtua Striker 2 (Model 3; 1997) — Designers
Virtua Fighter 3tb (Model 3; 1997) — Stage Design, Modeling
Fighting Vipers 2 (Model 3; 1998) — Stage Designers
Virtua Fighter 3tb (Dreamcast; 1998) — Stage Design, Modeling
Outtrigger (NAOMI; 1999) — Stage Designers
Shenmue (Dreamcast; 1999) — Debug Management
Fighting Vipers 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Stage Designers^[10]
US Shenmue (Dreamcast; 2001) — Debug Management
Shenmue II (Dreamcast; 2001) — System Planners
Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Marz (PlayStation 2; 2003) — Assistant Director

Videos

Sega Super Game 6 (VHS; 1987) — Game Player

External links

Profile on Hitmaker (backup)

References

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20230820114341.2Fhttps:.2F.2Figcc.jp.2Fkenjo-03-01.2F-1] 1.0 ^1.1 https://igcc.jp/kenjo-03-01/ (Wayback Machine: 2023-08-20 11:43)

[Sega_Super_Game_6-2] Sega Super Game 6

[:File:Pro_Striker_Final_Stage_MD_credits.pdf_p-3] File:Pro Striker Final Stage MD credits.pdf

[:File:VFCGP05_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf_p-4] File:VFCGP05_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf

[:File:VFCGP06_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf_p-5] File:VFCGP06_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf

[:File:VFCGP07_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf_p-6] File:VFCGP07_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf

[:File:VFCGP08_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf_p-7] File:VFCGP08_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf

[:File:VFCGP09_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf_p-8] File:VFCGP09_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf

[:File:VFCGP10_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf_p-9] File:VFCGP10_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf

[:File:Fighting_Vipers_2_Dreamcast_credits.pdf_p-10] File:Fighting Vipers 2 Dreamcast credits.pdf

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-{{sub-stub}}'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (杣木 昌明) is a former designer and assistant director at [[Sega]]. After graduating high school, he worked part-time at an arcade in Shinjuku, was designed the [[Game Gear]] title ''[[Royal Stone: Hirakareshi Toki no Tobira]]'' at [[CS5]] (with [[Ryushin Hamada]], joined [[AM2]] as a graphic designer, and later became the assistant director of ''[[Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Marz]]'' under [[Hitmaker]]. He seems to currently work at Pyramid Inc..
+{{sub-stub}}'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (杣木 昌明) is a former designer and assistant director at [[Sega]]. After graduating high school, he worked part-time at an arcade in Shinjuku named Spream-Rei{{intref|Sega Super Game 6}}. After joining Sega in 1992, he worked on  [[Game Gear]] titles, including co-designing ''[[Royal Stone: Hirakareshi Toki no Tobira]]'' at [[CS5]] (with [[Ryushin Hamada]], joined [[AM2]] as a graphic designer, and later became the assistant director of ''[[Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Marz]]'' under [[Hitmaker]]. He seems to currently work at Pyramid Inc..
 ==Production history==