User:Nicolaas Hamman

Playlist Manager for RADIOSEGA. Trusted Editor for VGMdb.

• Country: South Africa
• Date of Birth: 2000-08-21
• First Soundtrack Purchase: SEGA RALLY 2006 ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK
• Playlist Manager since: June 29, 2020

Frequents various SEGA websites for music-related info. Cares deeply about Production Credits. Unnofficially heads the SEGA side of VGMdb's product line. Half the year, I host the weekly podcast/LiVE show Individual on RadioSEGA. It's a Wednesday show in which I go over the histories and sounds of SEGA sound designers (or at the very least, the musicians with substantial ties to SEGA). A lot of edits you see during the second half of the year, it's to do with me researching for Individual.

Todo list

• Add Keiichi Matsunami's musing to 18 Wheeler developmwnt page.
• Complete Harmony 1994 joins (last finished Yuichi Morosawa)
• Complete UGA staff page (last finished 野田 恵市)
• Complete Hitmaker column profiles (last finished Masaru Kurosawa) (skipped 井上 太郎, 太田 篤史, 村松 梨恵子, 世永 玲生, 大貫 尚紀, 宮内 理恵, 大村 遊, 清水 亜紀)

URL seems to switch by https://web.archive.org/web/20030625075831/http://www.hitmaker.co.jp/top/lounge/corumun/site/corumun_txt107.html

• • More info on Reo Yonaga (世永 玲生) https://www.quora.com/profile/%E4%B8%96%E6%B0%B8-%E7%8E%B2%E7%94%9F-Yonaga-Reo https://www.hnut.co.jp/entry/seminor/111 https://akiyoko.hatenablog.jp/category/SEO
  • ones I had to skip - 中田 愛澄, 冨松 里絵
• Make PDFs for more albums
• Research CEDEC pages and upload photos 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
• Add references of Westone games listed here.
• Masayoshi Obata? - https://retrocdn.net/images/2/23/BeepMD_JP_1994-08.pdf CG designer on page 91
• Interview sorting on Sonic and Sega Retro - https://discord.com/channels/202859782779043840/1079230522288504942/1147571227993591871
• Look through all Calenders in Beep! Megadrive and Mega Drive Fan for missed release dates and canceled games.

Company pages

• Create Sega AM2 Sound/Sega CS3 Sound. Also link them to the respective confirmed games.
• Change pages linked to Aspect to also include appropriate Sega divisions.

Developer pages worth rewriting

• Hisao Oguchi
• Yukifumi Makino
• Hiroshi Kawaguchi
• Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
• Nobutaka Arii
• Takayuki Kawagoe - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HMV4YO83bHAyd2PNThHHsC-axo6YEEO80VUrWOKprYM/edit
• related - Sega Sound Team https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XdBolov3-iQmKzx77N0OQPi8Ck3XqpUU4i-IcZKuz2g/edit?usp=sharing

Production credits

• Check ERI in Space Harrier and Fantasy Zone II
• Go through Weekly-AM2 for Production Credits breakdown, e.g. OutRun2
• Check magazine articles for Koichi Sasaki's games, if there's interviews they might reveal his earlier works.

Magazine articles progress

• Interviews in Beep! Megadrive - maybe finished first year?
• Link games for Beep! Megadrive. Go in reverse order, earlier releases seem better-covered.
• Interviews in Saturn Fan - everything in WAY to the SEGA FAN?
• Interviews in Sega Saturn Magazine (Japan) - up to at least SSM JP 19960223 1996-03.pdf (most recent Yu Suzuki interview)
• Interviews in Dreamcast Magazine (Japan) - complete list todo https://docs.google.com/document/d/15D_B4WH30oMhSdjPe14fJQDnbWFCPcXIzMSI8Rs9ZBI/edit
• Game links for Mega Drive Fan - only Mdfan_JP_1989-11.pdf (issue 2)
• Find that CRI interview with like 10 different people and they all have photos.

Soundtrack sections for games

• Tetris Giant - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dfdBA_p3iK-yk9KTYZGnGKMrEiTe3ZVdEwvJfYnXS3A/edit

Alias Speculation

• Sachio Ogawa - Booty, Roge, E.Fugu
• Masafumi Ogata - Galapagos
• Yasuhiro Kawakami - Yamiagari
• Hisato Fukumoto - see Talk:Hisato_Fukumoto
• Kazuo Wakihara - Wahaha
• Chieko Aoki - April Fool
• Yoshihiko Toyoshima - よしくん (Yoshikun), Totoyo
• Takashi Atsu - Atsu
• Ai Kotani - Cotani ?
• Naomi Yamamoto - N.Y, Nao Chan (in SDI), Nao, Nao Nao
• Ryuichi Hattori - Mad Hatter?, Hatter?
• Michikazu Tamamura - Tamamur∀
• Gen Adachi - Geny
• Naoya Ichikawa - Ichiemon, N.Ichikuwa
• Keiichi Matate/Keiichi Yamamoto - K1
• Akihito Wada - Wa-Da
• Mika Okada - Mikarin (Astal graphics were compared to the Illusion series a lot, but no Astal developers are confirmed to have also worked on Illusion)
• R. Fujimura/Ray.F - Raizou/Ray
• Takaaki Kamohara - Angel Kamo (similar names, same roles, both with Sega CS5)
• A.Tezuka - Tez (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit)), Tez・Mania (Jurassic Park (8-bit))
• Marsh - Marusan (similar name and roles, works with many of the same people)
• K.Koba - Kamu (progammed Alex Kidd in Shinobi World with Takubon.
• KenKen - K.K. (in Ghostbusters (Mega Drive)). Similar name and same role. Also would make for 2 games programmed with K.Koba.
• Miki Morimoto - Moritan (Phantasy Star III, thanked with many previous series developers), Moririn (OutRunners, was in Sega CS3 at the time and Moririn is a designer) Mike (in Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit, was in Sega CS3 at the time and Mike is a designer)
• Kazuyuki Shibata - Kyz (Phantasy Star III, thanked with many previous series developers)
• Hirokazu Yasuhara - Autumn (in Super League (Mega Drive), Autumn is a translation of Akitsu, like the name Carol Akitsu. They are also both graphic designers and Autumn worked with Naoto Ohshima).
• Daisuke Sato - Ching Sato (in Surging Aura, an RPG Production game)
• Takayuki Iida - Iiyo (both programmers in roughly the same era)
• Hiroyuki Kawaguchi - Hirohih (in Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit, artist, matches CS2 -> CS3 -> CS2 trajectory)
• Takeshi Doi - Doydoy
• Masanori Hara - Haraita (with Katsuhiko Ogikubo in Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba)
• Koichi Nagata - Sexy Dynamite (apparently both named programmers, both programmers in roughly the same era), Nas Agatan (programmer on Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, it's a reverse of Nagata San), Shoozy (programmer whose surname starts with N)
• Endo Aki - Chameleon Aki (same gender, Endo Aki has an unknown works history)
• Masaru Nakamura - Saku (Programmer with Game Gear history, 卓 can be read as Taku which sound similar)
• Shin Futakawame - Shinchan (fills in missing year, is with CS2 at about the right time)
• Fumiaki Tomura - F.HAMSTER (in Golden Axe III, matching initials, kinda similar sounding names, both manual writers)
• Kenji Sakurai - Ken-San/Kensan (Game Gear programmers, overlap between Sakurai+Yoshihiko Toyoshima and Ken-San/Totoyo)