Virtua Tennis 3/Production credits

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Lindbergh version

• Producer: Mie Kumagai
• Chief Director: Kazuko Noguchi
• Planner: Nobuyuki Yamashita, Norio Furuichi
• Chief Programmer: Yoshifumi Ishihata
• Programmers: Takeshi Numazawa, Takashi Hirayama, Jyoji Yamada, Norikazu Hayashi, Takuya Monma
• Chief Designer: Michinari Terada
• Character Designers: Toshihiro Ando, Hiroshi Iijima, Masayuki Gotoh, Nobuhiro Ushiyama
• Stage Designers: Yoshihiko Nakagawa, Daisuke Ogawa, Megumi Matsuda, Akira Fujiki
• Motion Designers: Kenji Shimizu, Masateru Nishiyama, Kazuyuki Watanabe
• 2D Designers: Yuko Kubota, Koujyo Tsukamoto, Takayuki Nagashima
• Sound Designer: Kentaro Koyama
• Technical Support: Masahito Kurosawa, Masaru Takano, Hiroshi Tatefuku, Osamu Takamori, Jun Kanda, Kiyofumi Kondoh, Hidenobu Yamada, Yasuto Muraki
• Motion Actor: Naoki Arimoto, Masatoshi Miyazaki, Yaoki Ishii
• Voice Actor: Walter Roberts
• Product Manager: Kentaro Nemoto, Masashi Ito
• Licensing Department: Rika Shirai, Nivine Emeran (SOE), Tetsuya Hotozuka, Takeshi Hiratsuka, Rie Kondo, Takuma Hatori
• Publicity: Kensaku Nishimura
• Mechanical Engineer: Toshiya Yamaguchi, Asako Tominaga, Masaki Kawabata, Yusuke Kaji
• Electrical Engineer: Yasuhiro Kondo, Hideyuki Yamada, Toru Mori, Yoshiaki Yamamoto
• Cabinet Designer: Yasuhiro Wada, Kimio Tsuda, Koji Yamashita
• Special Thanks: Mitsuharu Saikawa, Mitsuhiko Kakita, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Ko Nishino, MOZZO,inc., BASEBALL MAGAZINE SHA co.,ltd., Club Sega Shinjuku, Yoshitaka Saitoh, Kei Midorikawa, Masashi Saitoh, Ryo, To all members of AM3. and To all the players of the POWER SMASH series.

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In-game credits

PlayStation 3 version

Virtua Tennis 3/Power Smash 3 Development Staff

• Producer: Mie Kumagai
• Chief Director: Kazuko Noguchi
• Chief Game Designer: Nobuyuki Yamashita
• Game Designers: Norio Furuichi, Naoki Kinoshita, Hisashi Kobayashi
• Chief Programmer: Yoshifumi Ishihata
• Programmers: Takeshi Numazawa, Norikazu Hayashi, Takashi Hirayama, Jyoji Yamada, Takeshi Yamazaki, Yuya Ito
• Chief Artist: Michinari Terada
• Animators: Kenji Shimizu, Masateru Nishiyama, Kazuyuki Watanabe
• Character Artists: Toshihiro Ando, Hiroshi Iijima, Masayuki Gotoh, Akira Kokai, Kentaro Nishimura, Hiroaki Ohta, Keisuke Takahashi
• Background Designers: Yoshihiko Nakagawa, Daisuke Ogawa, Megumi Matsuda, Akira Fujiki, Yasuko Ito
• Front-end Designers: Yoshihiko Nakagawa, Daisuke Ogawa, Megumi Matsuda, Yoshinori Nozaki, Toshinori Tahara
• Effect Artist: Yuichi Nakamura
• Sound Artist: Kentaro Koyama
• Motion Actors: Naoki Arimoto, Masatoshi Miyazaki, Yaoki Ishii, Maki Arai, Seiko Okamoto, Satomi Kinjo
• Technical Support Team: Masahito Kurosawa, Hiroshi Tatefuku, Osamu Takamori, Jun Kanda, Ryosuke Tochigi, Kiyofumi Kondoh, Hidenobu Yamada

Sega Corp. Staff

• Licensing: Tetsuya Hotozuka, Takeshi Hiratsuka, Rie Kondo, Rika Shirai, Jun Otsuka, Nivine Emeran
• Software Manual: Tatsuya Shikata, Shinobu, Hiroshi Nagata
• Software Test: Junichi Shimizu, Akira Nishikawa, Akira Terasawa, Sunao Murayama, Yuji Nakamura
• Print Production: Yoichi Takahashi, Masaru Kobayashi, Kaoru Miki
• Sales & Promotion: Yasushi Yamashita, Yasushi Nagumo, Hitoshi Kurosawa, Toru Yasuda, Hiroe Matsumae, Kensuke Nakamura
• Web Artists: Mutsuhiro Fujii, Yu Inada

Sega Europe Limited Staff

• CEO: Naoya Tsurumi
• President/COO: Mike Hayes
• Creative Director: Matthew Woodley
• Development Director: Gary Dunn
• Studio Head: Kuniyo Matsumoto
• Euro Producer: Warren Leigh
• Director of European Marketing: Gary Knight
• Brand Managers: Matt Eyre, Mark Cook, Hiromi Ando
• European PR: Lynn Daniel, Kerry Martyn
• International Brand Manager: Ben Chalmers-Stevens
• Creative Serv: Tom Bingle, Alison Warfield, Morgan Gibbons
• Dev.Serv. Manager: Mark Le Breton
• QA Supervisors: Marlon Grant, Stuart Arrowsmith, Stl-Ben Howell
• Teamlead/Standards: George Cover, Mohammed Ajaib, Michael Hanley
• Localisation Leads: Marta Lois Gonzalez, Giuseppe Rizzo
• Localization: Brigitte Nadesan, Daniela Kaynert, Luis J. Paredes, Carole Kunzelmann, Jay Bannmüller, Seb Pérez Salguero, Antonio Catanese, Antonella Marras

Sega of America, Inc. Staff

• CEO: Naoya Tsurumi
• President/COO: Simon Jeffry
• VP of Product: David Cobb
• US Producers: Constantine Hantzopoulos, Christopher Kaminski
• Publicity: Klayton Vorlick, Ayumi Tani
• QA: Deni Skeens, Josh Morton
• Build Mastering: Rhianna Kellom
• Marketing: Scott Steinberg, Rick Naylor
• Product Manager: Teri Higgins
• PR Management: Steve Groll, Jennie Sue

• Special Thanks...: Mitsuharu Saikawa, Satoru Okano, Mitsuhiko Kakita, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Takeshi Itou, Masahito Imamura, Jun Masuda, Kinichi Nishida, MOZZO,inc., AIR STUDIOS, BASEBALL MAGAZINE SHA co.,ltd., KOO-KI MOTION GRAPHICS CO.,LTD., To all members of AM3. and To all the players of the POWER SMASH series.

Sumo Digital

• Chief Operating Officer: Carl Cavers
• Technical Director: Paul Porter
• Creative Director: Darren Mills
• Executive Producer: Mark Glossop
• Creative Lead: Yoshifusa Hayama
• Assistant Producer: Toby Allen
• Lead Programmer: Phil Rankin
• Platform Lead Programmers: Sean Davies, Damian Hibbard, Stace Hindle
• Programmers: Ben Bradford, Ash Bennett, Andy Chapman, Carl Dixon, Greg Irwin, Simon Mills, Simon Nicholass, Tom Salter, John Stephens, Ian Sweeny, Paul Tankard, Jon Watson, Michael Welsh, Phil Woods
• Lead Environment Artist: Dave Poole
• Lead Character Artist: Chris Rawlinson
• 2D Artists: Hayley Brant, Chris Samwell, Luke Thompson, Kelly Redfern, Stuart Ritson
• 3D Artists: Dan Crossland, Grant Duncan, Matt Furniss, Sim Furniss, Michael Hirst, Chris Pepper, Gary Reynolds, Mark Thackeray, Simon Wattage
• Lead Designer: Travis Ryan
• Sumo QA: Mark Bridges, Tom Daley, Jody Hindle, Paul Martin

This game is dedicated to the memory of Chris Samwell

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In-game credits

SEGA EUROPE

• CEO: Naoya Tsurumi
• President/COO: Mike Hayes
• Development Director: Gary Dunn
• Creative Director: Matthew Woodley
• Director of European Marketing: Gary Knight
• Head of Japanese Studio: Kuniyo Matsumoto
• Senior Producer: Warren Leigh
• Director of Brand Marketing: David Miller
• Publishing Manager: Nathalie Ransom
• PR Manager: Kerry Martyn
• Marketing Manager: Matt Eyre
• Brand Manager: Mark Cook, Hiromi Ando
• International Brand Manager: Ben Chalmers-Stevens
• Creative Services: Alison Peat, Tom Bingle, Morgan Gibbons, Akane Hiraoka, Arnoud Tempelaere, Jack Gibbons
• Head of Operations: Mark Simmons
• Purchasing Manager: Caroline Searle
• Operations: Natalie Cooke, Michelle Blake
• Head Of Online: Justin Moodie
• Online Marketing Manager: Mike Evans
• Online Project Manager: Elaine Carty
• Online Creative Manager: Bennie Booysen
• Community Manager: David Kempshall
• Head of UK Marketing: Tina Hicks
• UK Product Manager: Grant Gie
• UK PR Manager: Stefan McGarry
• UK Trade Marketing Manager: Clare Davis
• Legal Counsel: Nicola Steel, Mark Bennett
• Licensing Manager: Nivine Emeran
• Head of Development Services: Mark Le Breton
• Localisation Manager: Marta Lois Gonzalez
• Localisation Coordinator: Giuseppe Rizzo
• Localisation Team: Antonella Marras, Antonio Catanese, Luis J. Paredes, Sebastian Perez Salguero, Jay Bannmüller, Daniela Kaynert, Brigitte Nadesan, Carole Kunzelmann
• Master Technicians: John Hegarty, Jigar Patel
• QA Supervisors: Marlon Grant, Stuart Arrowsmith
• Senior Team Leads: Ben Howell, George Cover
• Assistant Team Leads: Justin Shehata, Mark Cant, Soner Ali, Luke Taraseck, Stephen Malcolm
• Testers: Sanjay Jagmohan, Stuart Fenn, Clinton Littlejohn, Noel Ogunmuyide, Vincent Grogan, Chi Tsang, Tom Drake, James Caudwell, Caroline Walker, Volong Tran, Hercules Bekker, Sam Berhan, Sacha Allari, Colin Perman, Jamie Bailey, Lee Heir, Colin Blenman, Matt Holden, Paul Sedgmore
• Standards Coordinator: Mohammed Ajaib
• Assistant Standards Coordinators: Michael Hanley, Justin Amore
• Language Team Lead: Alessandro Irranca
• Assistant Leads: Sergio Borrelli
• Senior Language Tester: Pedro L. Ortega
• Language Testers: Benjamin Blanquier, Stéphane Ponceau, Ernest Palau Gutierrez, Rafael Vicente, Sebastian Mewissen, Markus Weimar, Dietmar Krueger, Marco Fois, Sam Labrini, Tina Ferraro, Ruggero Varisco, Andrea Salvatici, Julien Blanc, Christian Hensen, Jorge Vilches, Juan Perez
• See the in-game credit roll for the complete staff of this game.
• Special Thanks: AM3, Mustard, Air Studios, Rika Shirai, Front Room, Ron Angle

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EU manual

PlayStation Portable version

Sega of America, Inc

• CEO: Naoya Tsurumi
• President/COO: Simon Jeffery
• VP of Product Development: Dave Cobb
• Senior Producer: Constantine Hantzopoulos
• Associate Producer: Christopher Kaminski
• Vice President of Marketing: Scott A. Steinberg
• Director of Marketing: Rick Naylor
• Product Manager: Teri A. Higgins
• Public Relations Manager: Jennie Sue
• Creative Services: Jen Groeling, Heather Lucchetti, Bridget Oates, Marco Garcia
• QA Lead Analysts: Shawn Dobbins, Chris Rose
• QA Asst. Lead Analysts: Jason Bianchi
• QA Testers: Jade August, Terence Destouet, Matt Goodwin, Jason Hom, Diego Melo
• Compliancy Lead Analyst: Stephen Akana
• Compliancy Asst. Lead Analysts: Lawrence Mann, Joe Floyd
• Compliancy Testers: Rudolfo "Junior" Sison
• Mastering Lab Coordinator: Rhianna Kellom
• Mastering Lab Technician: Rey Buzon
• Special Thanks: Mark Cook, Tom Dudley, Matt Eyre, Steve Fleming, Scott Lambrecht, Kerry Martyn, Hiroshi Nagata, Marjorie Puruganan, Osamu Shibamiya, Shinobu Shindo, Ben Szeto, Charles Topping, Klayton Vorlick, Omar Woodley

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US manual

Breakdown

Lindbergh version

Michinari Terada

• Co-created the game's lighting system.

Yoshihiko Nakagawa

• Co-created the game's lighting system.

Daisuke Ogawa

• Co-created the game's lighting system.