Amusement Vision
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| Founded: 2000-04-21[1] | ||
| Defunct: 2004-07-01[2], 2005-04-01 (as Division) | ||
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2000-04-21 2004-07-01
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Amusement Vision (アミューズメントヴィジョン) was a research and development division within Sega.
It was created in 2000 to act as a replacement for Sega Software R&D Dept. #4 (formerly known as Sega AM11)[3]. Just like the newly formed WOW Entertainment, Hitmaker and Sega Rosso, Amusement Vision were given a more home-centric purpose, in addition to catering the arcade market.
Sega AM2's Toshihiro Nagoshi managed the studio, with his brainchild Daytona USA seeing an Amusement Vision-led upgrade in the form of Daytona USA 2001.Amusement Vision's big success was the Monkey Ball franchise, one of the most notable post-Dreamcast successes. They were also responsible for the critically acclaimed F-Zero GX. Based on these successes, Nagoshi was allowed to further develop home console projects in the future, while other studios returned to be arcade-centric.
Following a corporate restructure, Amusement Vision would become New Entertainment R&D Dept. in 2005.
Contents
Current members
- Akiko Yoshizawa
- Akira Yamanaka
- Daisuke Sato
- Eigo Kasahara
- Haruyoshi Tomita
- Hideki Naganuma
- Hidenori Shoji
- Hiroyuki Sakamoto
- Hisashi Endo
- Jun Tokuhara
- Junichi Yamada
- Koji Ueda
- Kumiko Sakurai
- Masae Otoshi
- Masayoshi Kikuchi
- Masayoshi Yokoyama
- Sakae Osumi
- Satoshi Mifune
- Tetsuya Kaku
- Toshihiro Nagoshi
- Yukinobu Arikawa
- Yutaka Ito
- Yuri Fukuda
Former members
Softography
NAOMI
- Slashout (2000)
NAOMI GD-ROM
- Spikers Battle (2001)
NAOMI 2
- Virtua Striker 3 (2001)
NAOMI 2 GD-ROM
- Virtua Striker 3 (2001)
Hikaru
- Planet Harriers (2000)
Dreamcast
- Daytona USA 2001 Taikenban (2000)
- Daytona USA 2001 (2000)
Game Boy Advance
- Super Monkey Ball Jr. (2002)
GameCube
- Super Monkey Ball (2001)
- Virtua Striker 3 Ver. 2002 (2002)
- Super Monkey Ball 2 (2002)
- F-Zero GX (2003)
- Super Monkey Ball 2 Pack (2004)
Triforce
- Virtua Striker 3 Ver. 2002 (2002)
N-Gage
- Super Monkey Ball (2003)
Magazine articles
- Main article: Amusement Vision/Magazine articles.
External links
References
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