Tadashi Ihoroi

Tadashi Ihoroi
Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: 1969-08-12 (age 54)
Employment history: Sega Enterprises (1993 – ) Divisions: Sega CS2 Sega CS5 Sega PC Sega Software R&D Dept. 6 Smilebit Amusement Vision
Role(s): Designer, Director
Education: Private Ichikawa Senior High School (1988), Waseda University

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Tadashi Ihoroi (五百蔵 容), also known as 500ZO, joined Sega in 1993. He worked as planner for the Sonic & Tails (Sonic Chaos and Sonic Triple Trouble outside of Japan) series on the Game Gear and was in charge of the scenario and world-building for Hundred Swords. He currently serves as representative director for Studio Monad.

Production history

• Sonic Chaos (Master System; 1993) — Game Design (as 500ZO)
• Sonic Chaos (Game Gear; 1993) — Game Design (as 500ZO)
• Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble (Game Gear; 1994) — Staff (as T.Ihoroi)
• Sonic Drift 2 (Game Gear; 1995) — Special Thanks to (as T.Ihoroi)
• Kishin Douji Zenki (Game Gear; 1995) — Game Designer
• Tails Adventures (Game Gear; 1995) — Special Thanks to (as T.Ihoroi)
• Sonic Jam (Saturn; 1997) — Special Thanks
• Virtua Fighter 2 (Windows PC; No results?) — Help Editor
• Virtua Fighter 2 (Windows PC; No results?) — Director
• Hundred Swords (Dreamcast; 2001) — Adventure Planning (as 五百蔵 容)
• Hundred Swords (Dreamcast; 2001) — Based On Lyrics (as 五百蔵 容)
• Gunvalkyrie (Xbox; 2002) — Chief Planner
• Panzer Dragoon Orta (Xbox; 2002) — Special Thanks
• J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 3 (PlayStation 2; 2003) — プランナー (as 五百蔵 容)

• Virtua Fighter Remix (PC Version)
• Sakura Taisen (PC Version) (1999)

Interviews

• Interview: Tadashi Ihoroi (2002-03-18) by Sega.jp

External links

• Tadashi Ihoroi on Twitter
• Amusement Vision planning column #9 (Part 1)
• Amusement Vision planning column #9 (Part 2)