Katsuhiro Hasegawa
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Katsuhiro Hasegawa |
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Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan[1] |
Employment history: Sega Enterprises (1984[2] – )
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Role(s): Director, producer, programmer |
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Katsuhiro Hasegawa (長谷川 勝弘), also known as Hase and Hassy, is a former director and producer at Sega of Japan, most notable for being instrumental in producing dozens of Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear games during the late 1980s and 1990s. He directed at least 3 SG-1000 games, over 20 games for the Master System including Teddy Boy Blues and SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative, at least 3 Mega Drive games, over 20 Game Gear games including both Super Monaco GP and both Sonic Drift games. He directed at least 4 Saturn games including Cyber Troopers Virtual-On, but also predominantly became a producer, such as producing Resident Evil and other games in the series for Dreamcast. He is also somewhat known for producing mobile games such as Shining Force Chronicle I and J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! Mobile.
Career
Katsuhiro Hasegawa joined Sega in 1984 as a programmer. However, as part of his 2-month training period, he was required to also show a game design to executives, so used one that he had been tinkering with since his student days. They were wowed by it, and so he was moved to the designers department, alongside Kotaro Hayashida, Mutsuhiro Fujii and one other person.[1] The first game he designed was an arcade motocross game (not to be confused with Enduro Racer), which horribly failed its location test. The first game he created which was released would be a port of Chack n' Pop for the Sega SG-1000.[2]
Hasegawa would go on to be more active as a director of arcade-to-console ports, with Teddy Boy Blues[4] and [5][6] being standout releases. Even after the release of the Sega Mega Drive, he primarily dealt with the 8-bit Sega Master System hardware, and therefore was the perfect candidate to direct for the Sega Game Gear console as well, such as the launch title Super Monaco GP. His work on the sequel, Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II, was particularly memorable, as he had the opportunity to meet with Ayrton Senna.[1]
From 1984 to 1991, Katsuhiro Hasegawa had been part of Sega R&D 2, but then became part of Sega CS2 after a corporate restructure. While he still continued to focus on Game Gear, he would also have some involvement with the department's home console efforts, like Streets of Rage 2 and Dark Wizard. Hasegawa stayed with CS2 as its Game Gear development team morphed into Sega CS5, but in 1995 began working with producer Hiroshi Aso on several Mega Drive games, as well as the Game Gear game Ninku, and the two together worked with Scarab to develop Hasegawa's debut on Sega Saturn: Godzilla Rettoushinkan.
Katsuhiro Hasegawa then began almost exclusively producing and directing Saturn games, most of them ports developed by third-parties. The most notable of these may be Resident Evil, and he produced further ports in the series to the Sega Dreamcast. After producing Biohazard Code: Veronica Kanzenban, he instead began producing PC titles, such as J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! Bonus Pack.[7] By 2004 he was part of the Mobile Business Dept. and was producing mobile releases in the Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou[8] and Shining franchises.[2][8]
Production history
- Chack'n Pop (SG-1000; 1985)
- Teddy Boy Blues (Master System; 1985) — Director
- Hang-On (Master System; 1985)
- Rock n' Bolt (SG-1000; 1985) — Director
- Bomb Jack (SG-1000; 1985) — Director
- Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa (Master System; 1987) — Director
- SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative (Master System; 1987) — Director
- Shinobi (Master System; 1988) — Director
- Altered Beast (Master System; 1989) — Director
- Hokuto no Ken: Shin Seikimatsu Kyuuseishu Densetsu (Mega Drive; 1989) — Director[9] (as The Hase)
- Golden Axe (Master System; 1989) — Director
- Super Monaco GP (Game Gear; 1990) — Designer (as Hase)
- Dragon Crystal (Game Gear; 1990) — Special Thanks[10] (as The Hase)
- Ghouls'n Ghosts (Master System; 1991) — Director
- The GG Shinobi (Game Gear; 1991) — Planning[11] (as The Hase)
- Pro Yakyuu Super League '91 (Mega Drive; 1991) — Special Thanks[12] (as HAS)
- Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe (Game Gear; 1991) — Planning[13] (as The Hase)
- Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II (Master System; 1992) — Planner (as Hase)
- Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II (Game Gear; 1992) — Planner (as Hase)
- Batman Returns (Game Gear; 1992) — Special Thanks[14] (as Hase)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Game Gear; 1992) — Thanks[15] (as The Hase)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Master System; 1992) — Thanks[16] (as The Hase)
- Shinobi II: The Silent Fury (Game Gear; 1992) — Special Thanks[17] (as The Hase)
- Streets of Rage 2 (Mega Drive; 1992)[18] (as Hassy)
- Batman Returns (Master System; 1993) — Planning[19] (as Hase)
- Jurassic Park (Game Gear; 1993) — Special Thanks[20] (as Hase)
- Jurassic Park (Master System; 1993) — Special Thanks[20] (as Hase)
- Astérix and the Secret Mission (Master System; 1993) — Director (as Hase)
- Dark Wizard (Mega-CD; 1993) — アニメーション・データ[21] (as HASSY)
- Dark Wizard (Mega-CD; 1993) — プランナー[21] (as HASSY)
- Dark Wizard (Mega-CD; 1993) — Animation Data[22] (as Hassy)
- Dark Wizard (Mega-CD; 1993) — Planner[22] (as Hassy)
- Sonic Chaos (Game Gear; 1993) — Thanks to[23] (as The Hase)
- Sonic Chaos (Master System; 1993) — Thanks to[23] (as The Hase)
- Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Game Gear; 1993) — Directors[24] (as Hase)
- Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck (Game Gear; 1993) — Producers[25] (as Hase)
- Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck (Master System; 1994) — Producers[25] (as Hase)
- Astérix and the Secret Mission (Game Gear; 1994) — Director[26] (as Hase)
- Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Master System; 1994) — Directors[24] (as Hase)
- Sonic Drift (Game Gear; 1994) — Director[27] (as Hase)
- Streets of Rage 3 (Mega Drive; 1994) — Special Thanks[28] (as Hassy)
- Streets of Rage 3 (Mega Drive; 1994) — Special Thanks to[29] (as Hassy)
- Torarete Tamaruka!? (Game Gear; 1994) — Producers (as Hase)
- Sassou Shounen Eiyuuden Coca-Cola Kid (Game Gear; 1994) — Directer[30] (as Hase)
- Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba (Game Gear; 1994) — Director (as Hase)
- Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Game Gear; 1995) — Director[31]
- Sylvan Tale (Game Gear; 1995) — Directors (as Hase)
- Royal Stone: Hirakareshi Toki no Tobira (Game Gear; 1995) — Director
- Tama & Friends: 3 Choume Kouen Tamalympic (Game Gear; 1995) — Director (as Hasegawa)
- Sonic Drift 2 (Game Gear; 1995) — Director[32] (as K.Hasegawa)
- Gunstar Heroes (Game Gear; 1995)
- Super Columns (Game Gear; 1995) — Directors (as K.Hasegawa)
- Chou Kyuukai Miracle Nine (Mega Drive; 1995) — Director (as Hasegawa Katsuhiro)
- Ninku (Game Gear; 1995) — Director (as K.Hasegawa)
- Pro Striker Final Stage (Mega Drive; 1995) — Director[33] (as 長谷川 勝弘)
- Mahou Kishi Rayearth 2: Making of Magic Knight (Game Gear; 1995) — Director (as K.Hasegawa)
- Kishin Douji Zenki (Game Gear; 1995) — Producer[34]
- Tails Adventures (Game Gear; 1995) — Producer[35] (as K.Hasegawa)
- Tails Adventures (Game Gear; 1995) — Director[35] (as K.Hasegawa)
- Ninku Gaiden: Hiroyuki Daikatsugeki (Game Gear; 1995) — Producer (as 長谷川 勝弘)
- Godzilla Rettoushinkan (Saturn; 1995) — -ディレクター-[36] (as 長谷川 勝弘)
- Guardian Heroes (Saturn; 1996) — ディレクター[37] (as 長谷川 勝弘)
- Ninku: Tsuyokina Yatsura no Daigekitotsu! (Saturn; 1996) — Chief Coordinator[38]
- As Aventuras da TV Colosso (Master System; 1996) — Director (as Hase)
- Cyber Troopers Virtual-On (Saturn; 1996) — Director[39]
- Sega Ages Rouka ni Ichidant-R (Saturn; 1996) — Producer[40]
- Choujikuu Yousai Macross: Ai Oboete Imasu ka (Saturn; 1997) — チーフディレクター[41] (as 長谷川 勝弘)
- Resident Evil (Saturn; 1997) — Producer[42]
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Game Gear; 1997) — Director[43]
- Sega Ages Columns Arcade Collection (Saturn; 1997) — Special Thanks[44]
- Sonic R (Saturn; 1997) — Game Advisors[45]
- Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 98 (Saturn; 1998) — Producer[46]
- Nihon Daihyou Team no Kantoku ni Narou! Sekaihatsu, Soccer RPG (Saturn; 1998) — Sega Special Thanks
- Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Master System; 1998) — Director[31]
- Sonic R (Windows PC; 1998) — Game advisors
- Resident Evil Code: Veronica (Dreamcast; 2000) — Producer
- Biohazard Code: Veronica Kanzenban (Dreamcast; 2001) — Producer
- J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! Bonus Pack (Windows PC; 2002) — Producer
- Virtua Striker 4 (Triforce; 2004) — Mobile Business Dept. for Japan Ver.
- J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! Mobile (i-mode 90x; 2005) — Producer
- J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! Mobile 2 (i-mode 90x; 2005) — Producer
- Virtua Striker 4 Ver. 2006 (Triforce; 2006) — Mobile Business Dept.
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 33: Fantasy Zone Complete Collection (PlayStation 2; 2008) — Special Thanks
- Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict (1995) — Producer[2]
- Shining Road to the Force[2] (2005)
- Shining Force Chronicle I (2005) — Producer[2]
Magazine articles
- Main article: Katsuhiro Hasegawa/Magazine articles.
Interviews
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- Meisaku Album interview (Japanese)
- SEGA VOICE interview (September 1, 2005)
- SEGA VOICE interview with Katsuhiro Hasegawa and Koichi Sasaki (March 30, 2006)
Photographs
- Main article: Photos of Katsuhiro Hasegawa
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://sega.jp/fb/album/06_sdi/interview1.html (Wayback Machine: 2013-06-23 05:02)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 http://sega.jp/segavoice/vol06/ (Wayback Machine: 2008-01-23 22:32)
- ↑ Harmony, "1993 5-6" (JP; 1993-05-20), page 15
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "December 1991" (JP; 1991-11-08), page 83
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "August 1991" (JP; 1991-07-08), page 115
- ↑ https://www.sega.jp/fb/album/06_sdi/interview1.html
- ↑ http://sega.jp/fb/album/06_sdi/memories.html (Wayback Machine: 2013-06-23 04:58)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 http://sega.jp/segavoice/vol34 (Wayback Machine: 2009-06-30 09:44)
- ↑ File:Hokuto no Ken MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Dragon Crystal GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:GG Shinobi GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Pro Yakyuu Super League 91 MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Ax Battler GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Batman Returns GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic the Hedgehog 2 GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic the Hedgehog 2 SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ File:GG Shinobi II GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Streets of Rage 2 MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Batman Returns SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 File:Jurassic Park SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 File:Dark Wizard MCD JP credits.pdf
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 File:Dark Wizard MCD credits.pdf
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 File:Sonic Chaos SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 File:Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 File:Deep Duck Trouble GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Asterix and the Secret Mission GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic Drift GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Bare Knuckle III MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Streets of Rage 3 MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Coca-Cola Kid GG credits.pdf
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 File:Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse GG US Manual.pdf, page 10
- ↑ File:Sonic Drift 2 GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Pro Striker Final Stage MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Kishin Douji Zenki GG credits.pdf
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 File:Tails Adventures GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:GodzillaRS_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:Guardian Heroes JP Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:NinkuTYnD_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:Cyber Troopers Virtual On Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Quiz Rouka ni Tattenasai! Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:ChoujikuuYousaiMacross_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:Bio Hazard Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Lost World GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sega Ages Columns Arcade Collection Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic R Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 98 Saturn credits.pdf
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