Tadashi Ihoroi

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Tadashi Ihoroi
Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: 1969-08-12 (age 55)
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

Games

• Sonic Chaos (Game Gear; 1993) — Game Design (as 500ZO)
• Sonic Chaos (Master System; 1993) — Game Design (as 500ZO)
• Kishin Douji Zenki (Game Gear; 1995) — Game Designer
• Baku Baku Animal (Windows PC; 1996) — Project Planner
• Baku Baku Animal (Windows PC; 1996) — Help File
• Sonic Jam (Saturn; 1997) — Special Thanks
• Virtua Fighter 2 (Windows PC; 1997) — Help Editor
• Virtua Fighter 2 (Windows PC; 1997) — Director
• 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)

Music

• Gunvalkyrie Official Soundtrack (CD; 2002) — CD Concept Planner
• Gunvalkyrie Official Soundtrack (CD; 2002) — Chief Planner

• Sonic Chaos (1993) — Game Design (as 500ZO)
• Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble (1993) — Staff
• Virtua Fighter Remix (PC Version)
• Sakura Taisen (PC Version) (1999)

Interviews

Some or all of the following content should be mirrored on Sega Retro (or Retro CDN).

• Tadashi Ihoroi interview by Sega (April 8, 2002)

External links

• Tadashi Ihoroi on Twitter