Minoru Matsuura

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Minoru Matsuura
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Role(s): Artist

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Minoru Matsuura (松浦 稔) is a former artist at Sega, having worked on both 80's arcade games and 90's home console games.

According to a profile given in Saturn Fan[4], his confirmed works are (Arcade) OutRun, Alien Syndrome Galaxy Force I & II and Tetris, (Mega Drive) Ghostbusters, Advanced Daisenryaku[3], Bio-Hazard Battle, Virtua Racing and Virtua Racing Deluxe, (Saturn) Sega Rally Championship, Sega Rally Championship Plus and J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 2.

As one of the developers of Alien Syndrome, he has a boss named after him: Minnow, as evidenced by his later use of the name D.Minow in Forgotten Worlds.[2]

Production history

  • (; 1986) — Art
  • (; 1987) — Artist
  • (; 1988) — Artists
  • (; 1988) — Designer (as Lovely Ma2)
  • (; 1988) — Artist
  • (; 1989) — Designer[5] (as D.Minow)
  • (; 1989) — Opening Design (as Jiji)
  • (; 1990) — Designer[6] (as Doro Pi)
  • (; 1991) — total art directer (as Jijy)
  • (; 1991) — ship unit (as Jijy)
  • (; 1991) — Map Editer (as Jiji)
  • (; 1992) — Special thanks to (as Matsu-G)
  • (; 1992) — Sprite Designed by[7] (as Matsu G)
  • (; 1992) — Scroll Designed by[7] (as Matsu G)
  • (; 1992) — Ray Tracing by[7] (as Matsu G)
  • (; 1992) — Package CG Designed by[7] (as Matsu G)
  • (; 1993) — Background Design[8] (as Matsu G)
  • (; 1994) — Chief Designer
  • (; 1995) — Head Graphic Designers
  • (; 1996) — Head Graphic Designers
  • (; 1996) — Advisory Staffs
  • (; No results?) — Head Graphic Designers
  • (; 1997) — スペシャル・サンクス (as 松浦 稔)
  • (; 1997) — Producer (as 松浦 稔)
  • (; 1998) — Sega Special Thanks
  • (; 1998) — Thanks to
  • (; 1998) — Art staff coordinators
  • (; 2000) — チームマネージャー (as マツウラ ミノル)

Magazine articles

Main article: Minoru Matsuura/Magazine articles.

References