Futoshi Ito
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Futoshi Ito (伊藤 太) is a former electrical engineer at Sega Enterprises and deputy manager of AM R&D Dept.#4. He joined in 1985 and worked on many notable arcade cabinets like Space Harrier, OutRun, After Burner, Galaxy Force, R360, Super Monaco GP, and so forth. He also had a hand in a wide array of other amusement hardware, including several models in the Making Club Series (such as Print Club 2, the HMD (head mounted display) prototype, Medal game machines, etc.[1].
After leaving Sega in 1999, he worked for Sun Works and several other companies, continuing to develop amusement systems. He is now the CEO of Idea Games[1].
Production history
Games
- Space Harrier (Hang-On hardware; 1985) — Electrical Engineer
- OutRun (OutRun hardware; 1986) — Electrical Engineer
- After Burner (X Board; 1987) — Electrical Engineer
- Galaxy Force (Y Board; 1988) — Electrical Engineer
- Super Monaco GP (X Board; 1989) — Electrical Engineer
- Rad Mobile (System 32; 1990) — Cabinet Product by (as Futoshi Itoh)
- Virtua Racing (Model 1; 1992) — Electrical Technician
- Virtua Formula (Model 1; 1993) — Electrical Technician
- Star Wars Arcade (Model 1; 1993) — Special Thanks
- Aqua Stage (H1 Board; 1995) — Producer
- Print Club 2 (Sega Titan Video; 1997) — Electrical Engineer
- Movie Club (Sega Titan Video; 1997)
- Dirt Devils (Model 3; 1998) — Product Supervisor (as Futoshi Itoh)
- L.A. Machineguns (Model 3; 1998) — supervisor
Music
Hardware
- R360 (Mid-size attraction; 1990) — Electrical Engineer