Takashi Iizuka
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Takashi Iizuka |
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Place of birth: Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan |
Date of birth: 1970-03-16 (age 54) |
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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.
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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
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Videos
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Music
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Books
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Hardware
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Accessories
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- Sonic X (2003) — Supervisor
- Sonic Mega Collection Plus (2004) — Special Thanks (Sega Corporation)
- Sega Superstars Tennis (2008) — Special Thanks
- Sega Superstars Tennis (DS version) (2008) — Sega Studio USA (Special Thanks)
- Sonic Unleashed (Xbox 360 & PS3 versions) (2008) — Level Design Special Thanks, Special Thanks
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010) — CS2 R&D (Sega Japan)
- Sonic Free Riders (2010) — Scenario Supervisor, Sonic Character Supervisor
- Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary (2011) — Special Thanks
- Sonic Generations (PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions) (2011) — Producer (Sonic Generations Development Team)
- Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (2011/2012) — Sonic Character Supervisor
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II (2012) — Producer
- Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (2012) — CS2 R&D (Sega Corporation)
- Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (2013) — Sonic Character Supervisor (Sega Development Team)
- Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Original Soundtrack (CD) (2014) — Supervisor
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (2014) — Supervisor (Original Games)
- Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (2014) — Supervisor (Original Games)
- Sonic Runners (2015) — Producer
- Tembo the Badass Elephant (2015) — Supervisor (Sega)
- Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (2016) — Sonic Character Supervisor (Sega Games Development Team)
- Team Sonic Racing (2019) — Sonic Series Producer
Interviews
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- Yuji Naka and Takashi Iizuka interview by Sega Score (December 12, 2003)
- Takashi Iizuka interview by EGM (February 3, 2004)
- Takashi Iizuka interview by GMR (February 10, 2004)
- Takashi Iizuka and Ethan Einhorn interview by 1UP (March 22, 2005)
- Takashi Iizuka interview by Digital Chumps (September 3, 2010)
- Takashi Iizuka interview by Danny Russell (September 17, 2010)
- Yuji Naka and Takashi Iizuka interview for Sonic Heroes website
- Legendary Sonic Team creators reveal the truth of Sonic the Hedgehog's birth, success and rebirth on his 25th anniversary (June 24, 2016) [Translated]
Photographs
- Main article: Photos of Takashi Iizuka