Nicolaas Hamman

Playlist Manager for RADIOSEGA. Trusted Editor for VGMdb.

• Country: South Africa
• Date of Birth: 2000-08-21
• First Soundtrack Purchase: SEGA RALLY 2006 ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK
• Playlist Manager since: June 29, 2020

Frequents various SEGA websites for music-related info. Cares deeply about Production Credits. Unnofficially heads the SEGA side of VGMdb's product line. Half the year, I host the weekly podcast/LiVE show Individual on RadioSEGA. It's a Wednesday show in which I go over the histories and sounds of SEGA sound designers (or at the very least, the musicians with substantial ties to SEGA). A lot of edits you see during the second half of the year, it's to do with me researching for Individual.

Todo list

• Complete Harmony 1994 joins (last finished Yuichi Morosawa)
• Complete UGA staff page (last finished 野田 恵市)
• Complete Hitmaker column profiles (last finished Masaru Kurosawa)
  • ones I had to skip - 中田 愛澄, 冨松 里絵
• Make PDFs for more albums
• Research CEDEC pages and upload photos 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
• Add references of Westone games listed here.
• Masayoshi Obata? - https://retrocdn.net/images/2/23/BeepMD_JP_1994-08.pdf CG designer on page 91
• Interview sorting on Sonic and Sega Retro - https://discord.com/channels/202859782779043840/1079230522288504942/1147571227993591871
• Look through all Calenders in Beep! Megadrive and Mega Drive Fan for missed release dates and canceled games.

Company pages

• Create Sega AM2 Sound/Sega CS3 Sound. Also link them to the respective confirmed games.
• Change pages linked to Aspect to also include appropriate Sega divisions.

Developer pages worth rewriting

• Hisao Oguchi
• Yukifumi Makino
• Hiroshi Kawaguchi
• Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
• Nobutaka Arii
• Takayuki Kawagoe - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HMV4YO83bHAyd2PNThHHsC-axo6YEEO80VUrWOKprYM/edit
• related - Sega Sound Team https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XdBolov3-iQmKzx77N0OQPi8Ck3XqpUU4i-IcZKuz2g/edit?usp=sharing

Production credits

• Check ERI in Space Harrier and Fantasy Zone II
• Go through Weekly-AM2 for Production Credits breakdown, e.g. OutRun2
• Check magazine articles for Koichi Sasaki's games, if there's interviews they might reveal his earlier works.

Magazine articles progress

• Interviews in Beep! Megadrive - maybe finished first year?
• Link games for Beep! Megadrive. Go in reverse order, earlier releases seem better-covered.
• Interviews in Saturn Fan - everything in WAY to the SEGA FAN?
• Interviews in Sega Saturn Magazine (Japan) - up to at least SSM JP 19960223 1996-03.pdf (most recent Yu Suzuki interview)
• Interviews in Dreamcast Magazine (Japan) - complete list todo https://docs.google.com/document/d/15D_B4WH30oMhSdjPe14fJQDnbWFCPcXIzMSI8Rs9ZBI/edit
• Game links for Mega Drive Fan - only Mdfan_JP_1989-11.pdf (issue 2)
• Find that CRI interview with like 10 different people and they all have photos.

Soundtrack sections for games

• Tetris Giant - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dfdBA_p3iK-yk9KTYZGnGKMrEiTe3ZVdEwvJfYnXS3A/edit

Alias Speculation

• Sachio Ogawa - Booty, Roge, E.Fugu
• Masafumi Ogata - Galapagos
• Yasuhiro Kawakami - Yamiagari
• Hisato Fukumoto - see Talk:Hisato_Fukumoto
• Kazuo Wakihara - Wahaha
• Chieko Aoki - April Fool
• Yoshihiko Toyoshima - よしくん (Yoshikun), Totoyo
• Takashi Atsu - Atsu
• Ai Kotani - Cotani ?
• Junichi Tsuchiya - Tsuch/Sukebe J/J.T (same person for all 3 names)
• Naomi Yamamoto - N.Y, Nao Chan (in SDI), Nao, Nao Nao
• Ryuichi Hattori - Mad Hatter?, Hatter?
• Michikazu Tamamura - Tamamur∀
• Gen Adachi - Geny
• Naoya Ichikawa - Ichiemon, N.Ichikuwa
• Keiichi Matate/Keiichi Yamamoto - K1
• Akihito Wada - Wa-Da
• Yasushi Takeuchi - K, Oct
• Kou Tanaka - Akatan (surname spelled backwards, worked with AM3]])
• Keiichi Yamamoto - Yamaichi
• Mika Okada - Mikarin (Astal graphics were compared to the Illusion series a lot, but no Astal developers are confirmed to have also worked on Illusion)
• R. Fujimura/Ray.F - Raizou/Ray
• Hiromasa Kaneko/Masaya Kaneko - Masakaneco
• Manabu Sato - Manabu, Manaby
• Takaaki Kamohara - Angel Kamo (similar names, same roles, both with Sega CS5)
• A.Tezuka - Tez (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit)), Tez・Mania (Jurassic Park (8-bit))
• Marsh - Marusan (similar name and roles, works with many of the same people)
• K.Koba - Kamu (progammed Alex Kidd in Shinobi World with Takubon.
• KenKen - K.K. (in Ghostbusters (Mega Drive)). Similar name and same role. Also would make for 2 games programmed with K.Koba.
• Miki Morimoto - Moritan (Phantasy Star III, thanked with many previous series developers), Moririn (OutRunners, was in Sega CS3 at the time and Moririn is a designer) Mike (in Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit, was in Sega CS3 at the time and Mike is a designer)
• Kazuyuki Shibata - Kyz (Phantasy Star III, thanked with many previous series developers)
• Hirokazu Yasuhara - Autumn (in Super League (Mega Drive), Autumn is a translation of Akitsu, like the name Carol Akitsu. They are also both graphic designers and Autumn worked with Naoto Ohshima).
• Daisuke Sato - Ching Sato (in Surging Aura, an RPG Production game)
• Takayuki Iida - Iiyo (both programmers in roughly the same era)
• Masahiro Sanpei - Sanchan (in Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit, artist, matches CS2 -> CS3 trajectory)