Sega CS1 (1996-1999)

Sega CS1 (1996-1999) Division of Sega Enterprises
Founded: 1996-04-01
Defunct: 1999-05
Headquarters: Japan
1996-04-01 1999-05-11 ← Sega CS Sega Software R&D Dept. 6 →

Sega Consumer Research and Development Dept. #1 (Sega CS1) was a video game research and development division within Sega, following Sega Planning Design Production Dept. and Sega Software R&D Dept.. As the name suggests, it was the first "consumer"-specific R&D department created by Sega of Japan, acting as a loose successor to the previous Sega CS1. It was officially founded in April 1996 and headed by Koichi Nagata, replaced Makoto Oshitani a few years later.

The studio garnered various members from people who worked on Panzer Dragoon, sports games, 32X titles, and also developers who worked on 8-Bit conversion of titles for the Master System and Game Gear.

By early 1998, when all the studio's efforts were dedicated to Sega Saturn titles, it could be divided into 3 mostly distinct groups: those who worked on the Shinseiki Evangelion series, sports game developers and Team Andromeda (which developed on the Panzer Dragoon series).

In May 1999, all of Sega's internal development divisions were renamed, with CS1 becoming Sega Software R&D Dept. 6. During this transition, many developers left Sega to join the new start-ups Artoon and Land Ho!.

Softography

Saturn

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Saturn

• Guardian Heroes (1996) (with Treasure)
• Sega Ages (1996-1997) (with Rutubo Games, Ancient, CRI)
• Shinseiki Evangelion: 2nd Impression (1997)
• Shining Force III (1997) (with Camelot)
• Shining the Holy Ark (1997) (with Camelot)
• Sega Ages Power Drift (1998)

List of staff

• Hiroshi Yamazaki (programmer)
• Shun Arai
• Yasuhito Baba
• Hiroyuki Chi
• Shin Futakawame
• Naoko Hamada
• Masamichi Harada
• Tomoko Hasegawa
• Yuichi Higuchi
• Eiji Horita
• Kazuki Hosokawa
• Manabu Ishihara
• Takashi Iwade
• Hiromasa Kaneko
• Maki Kato
• Masayoshi Kikuchi
• Yoshiaki Kitagawa
• Hirotsugu Kobayashi
• Masahide Kobayashi
• Toyoji Kurose
• Satoshi Kuwata
• Hiroyasu Lee
• Shiro Maekawa
• Harumi Masuda
• Akira Mikame
• Takehiko Miura
• Yumiko Miyabe
• Hideaki Mochida
• Koki Mogi
• Hiroshi Momota
• Mayumi Moro
• Yuichi Morosawa
• Akihiko Mukaiyama
• Kenji Murayama
• Koichi Nagata
• Hitoshi Nakanishi
• Hiroki Okabata
• Yoshiyuki Okitsu
• Jun Orihara
• Makoto Oshitani
• Yoshihiro Otani
• Toshihide Ozeki
• Satoshi Sakai
• Masahiro Sanpei
• Koichi Sasaki
• Katsuhiko Sato
• Takaya Segawa
• Tetsuo Shinyu
• Miho Takayanagi
• Hidetoshi Takeshita
• Mina Tateiwa
• Tsuyoshi Tsunoi
• Ryuta Ueda
• Wataru Watanabe
• Katsuhiko Yamada
• Takahiko Yamashita
• Takayuki Yanagihori
• Masayoshi Yokoyama
• Kentaro Yoshida

Magazine articles

Main article: Sega CS1 (1996-1999)/Magazine articles.