Hideki Sato
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| Hideki Sato |
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| Place of birth: Hokkaido, Japan |
| Date of birth: 1950-11-05[1] (age 74) |
| Role(s): Executive, Developer |
| Education: Tokyo Metropolitan Technical College |
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Hideki Sato (佐藤 秀樹), born 5 November 1950 in Hokkaido, Japan, who designed many Sega consoles and served as president from 2001 to 2003. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Technical College, He joined Sega in April 1971[1], involving himself with arcade hardware. Sato and his team are credited for creating the majority of Sega consumer hardware - the SG-1000, Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast.
In 2008, he and with others established a company called Advance Create, Inc.
Production history
- Monaco GP (Discrete logic arcade; 1979)
- Turbo (VCO Object; 1981) — Hardware Design
- Star Jacker (System 1; 1983) — Hard Work By
- Burning Rangers (Saturn; 1998) — Executive Management[2]
- Dream Passport (Dreamcast; 1998) — エグゼクティブプロデューサー (as 佐藤 秀樹)
- Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Executive management
- Dream Passport 2 (Dreamcast; 1999) — エグゼクティブプロデューサー (as 佐藤 秀樹)
- ChuChu Rocket! (Dreamcast; 1999) — Exective Producers
- Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast; 2000) — Executive Management
- Sonic Adventure 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Executive Management
- Sonic Advance (Game Boy Advance; 2001) — Executive Producer[3]
- Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II (GameCube; 2002) — Executive Management
- Sonic Advance 2 (Game Boy Advance; 2002) — Executive Producer[4]
- Sonic Mega Collection (GameCube; 2002) — Executive Producer[5]
- Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II (Xbox; 2003) — Executive Management
- Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (GameCube; 2003) — Executive Producer
Hardware
- Sega System 1 (Arcade; 1982)
- SG-1000 (SG-1000; 1983)
- SC-3000 (SC-3000; 1983) — Designer
- SG-1000 II (SG-1000; 1984)
- Sega Mark III (Master System; 1985)
- Sega Mega Drive (Mega Drive; 1988)
- Sega Saturn (Saturn; 1994)
- Sega Dreamcast (Dreamcast; 1998)
- Star Jacker (System 1 Version) — Hard Work By [sic]
- Burning Rangers (1998) — Executive Management
- Sonic Adventure (1999) — Executive Management
- ChuChu Rocket! (GBA Version) (1999) — Executive Producer
- Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) — Executive Management
- Phantasy Star Online Ver.2 (2001) — Executive Management
- Sonic Advance (2002) — Executive Producer
- Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (2002) — Executive Management
- Sonic Mega Collection (2002) — Executive Producer
- Sonic Advance 2 (2003) — Executive Producer
- Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (2003) — Executive Producer
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References
| SEGA of Japan Executives | |
|---|---|
| Chairmen | Isao Okawa (1984-2001) | Hajime Satomi (2004-current) |
| Presidents | Hayao Nakayama (1984-1998) | Shoichiro Irimajiri (1998-2001) | Hideki Sato (2001-2003) | Hisao Oguchi (2003-2008) | Okitane Usui (2008-2012) | Naoya Tsurumi (2012-current) | Hideki Okamura (2014-current) | Haruki Satomi (2015-current) |