Kenji Tosaki

Kenji Tosaki
Employment history: Sega Enterprises (1988-03/04/05 – ) Sega (?? – 2001)
Role(s): Development Manager
Twitter: @Tosaki_c01

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Kenji Tosaki (戸崎健司) is a former Japanese developer. During the 1990s at Sega, he was development manager of the second console design department, mainly in charge of game console controllers and input devices. For the Saturn, he managed the Virtua Gun and 3D Control Pad, as well as its unreleased add-ons and the canned Virtua Visor head-mounted display.

Tosaki was heavily involved with the Dreamcast hardware, leading industrial design of the console, its controller, and the Visual Memory Unit. He is also credited with hardware support on numerous Sonic Team games, designing the Samba de Amigo Maracas Controller. He retired from Sega in 2001.

Production history

• NiGHTS into Dreams (Saturn; 1996) — Peripheral Support
• Godzilla Generations (Dreamcast; 1998) — 協力 (as 戸崎 健司)
• Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Hardware support
• Samba de Amigo (Dreamcast; 2000) — Maracas Controller
• Samba de Amigo Ver.2000 (Dreamcast; 2000) — Maracas Controller

• Virtua Visor (unreleased)
• Virtua Gun (1995)
• 3D Control Pad (1996)

Patents

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  US7488254 (3D Control Pad)

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  US6478679

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  US6786826B2

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  EP1332778B1

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  US5844530 (Virtua Visor)

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  US5392158

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  USD370909

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  US7331856 (Samba de Amigo Maracas Controller)

Interviews

• Interview: Kenji Tosaki (2022-06-03) by Shiro

Photographs

Main article: Photos of Kenji Tosaki

External links

• Interview: Kenji Tosaki talks Saturn/Dreamcast Peripheral Design, Reveals “Virtua Visor” at Shiro
• Mega Modem retrospective written by Kenji Tosaki for Beep21 (August 23, 2023)