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

Add Keiichi Matsunami's musing to 18 Wheeler developmwnt page.
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) (skipped 井上太郎, 太田篤史, 村松梨恵子, 世永玲生, 大貫尚紀, 宮内理恵, 大村遊, 清水亜紀)

URL seems to switch by https://web.archive.org/web/20030625075831/http://www.hitmaker.co.jp/top/lounge/corumun/site/corumun_txt107.html

- More info on Reo Yonaga (世永玲生) https://www.quora.com/profile/%E4%B8%96%E6%B0%B8-%E7%8E%B2%E7%94%9F-Yonaga-Reo https://www.hnut.co.jp/entry/seminor/111 https://akiyoko.hatenablog.jp/category/SEO
- 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.^[1]
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

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 CS3 -> CS2 trajectory)
Hiroyuki Kawaguchi - Hirohih (in Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit, artist, matches CS2 -> CS3 -> CS2 trajectory)
Takeshi Doi - Doydoy
Masanori Hara - Haraita (with Katsuhiko Ogikubo in Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba)
Koichi Nagata - Sexy Dynamite (apparently both named programmers, both programmers in roughly the same era), Nas Agatan (programmer on Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, it's a reverse of Nagata San), Shoozy (programmer whose surname starts with N)
Endo Aki - Chameleon Aki (same gender, Endo Aki has an unknown works history)

References

↑ Sega Consumer History, Enterbrain, page 90

[:File:Sega_Consumer_History_JP_EnterBrain_Book.pdf_p90-1] Sega Consumer History, Enterbrain, page 90

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