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Takashi Iizuka
Place of birth: Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
Date of birth: 1970-03-16 (age 54)
Employment history:
Sega of Japan (1992[1] – )
Divisions:
Sega of America (2004 – 2008)
Divisions:
Sega of Japan (2008 – )
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Role(s): Designer, Director, Producer
Education: Tokyo Denki University (1988-1992)

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Takashi Iizuka (飯塚 隆) is a Japanese video game developer and Sonic Team and Sonic Studio designer, director, and producer, known as one of the key heads of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise's modern incarnation.

Career

Takashi Iizuka is a key producer, director and designer within Sonic Team. Joining Sega in 1992 as a planner, he worked directly under Hirokazu Yasuhara as a senior game designer on Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, and quickly progressed to be the main design of NiGHTS into Dreams and supervise development of Sonic R. In 1998, he is credited as the driving force behind Sonic Adventure, the franchise's third adventure in the third dimension, as it had been his idea to create a role-playing game featuring Sonic.

After the success of Sonic Adventure, Iizuka headed to America, where he and a few other members of Sonic Team began work on such games as Sonic Adventure 2 and NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams. Iizuka continued as head of this department, known as Sega Studios USA, until 2008, when it was disbanded, and team members, including Iizuka were absorbed back into the Japanese division. After Akinori Nishiyama's departure from the head of Sonic Team chair, Sega would eventually settle with Iizuka as a main producer on the Sonic series, starting with Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I & Sonic Colors. Thus, he became the Sonic Series Producer/head of Sonic Team.

Production history

Games

Videos

Music

Hardware

Interviews

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Photographs

Main article: Photos of Takashi Iizuka

References

  1. ↑ http://sega.jp/segavoice/vol21/ (Wayback Machine: 2008-04-01 08:56)
  2. ↑ https://www.4gamer.net/games/131/G013139/20111227008/ (Wayback Machine: 2023-10-21 18:00)
  3. ↑ File:Golden Axe III MD credits.pdf
  4. ↑ File:Sonic & Knuckles MD credits.pdf
  5. ↑ File:NiGHTS into Dreams Saturn credits.pdf
  6. ↑ File:Sonic 3D Blast MD credits.pdf
  7. ↑ File:Sonic Jam Saturn credits.pdf
  8. ↑ File:Sonic R Saturn credits.pdf
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 File:Sonic 3D Blast Saturn credits.pdf
  10. ↑ File:ChuChu Rocket! GBA credits.pdf
  11. ↑ File:Sonic Advance GBA credits.pdf
  12. ↑ File:SonicMegaCollection GC US Credits.pdf
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 File:SonicRivals2 PSP US manual.pdf, page 23
  14. ↑ File:CutsUnleashed CD JP front.pdf, page 3
  15. ↑ File:MDSA2OST poster1.pdf, page 1
  16. ↑ File:SA2OST CD US booklet.pdf, page 10
  17. ↑ File:TripleThreat CD JP booklet.pdf, page 2
  18. ↑ File:CompleteTrinity CD JP booklet.pdf, page 8
  19. ↑ File:LostandFound CD JP booklet.pdf, page 6
  20. ↑ File:TrueBlue CD JP booklet.pdf, page 5
  21. ↑ File:FacetoFaith CD JP booklet.pdf, page 11
  22. ↑ File:TalesofKnighthood CD JP booklet.pdf, page 10
  23. ↑ File:TrueColorsTray.jpg
  24. ↑ File:VividSound CD JP booklet.pdf, page 18
  25. ↑ File:SonicCD OST Tray.jpg
  26. ↑ File:Live! CD JP booklet.pdf, page 15
  27. ↑ File:SLWOSTWB CD JP booklet.pdf, page 22
  28. ↑ File:SonicAdventureMusicExperience CD JP Box Tokyo.jpg
  29. ↑ File:SMPOST CD JP booklet.pdf, page 3
  30. ↑ File:MaximumOverdrive CD JP inlay front.jpg
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