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Takashi Iizuka
Place of birth: Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
Date of birth: 1970-03-16 (age 54)
Employment history:
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Sega of America (2004 – 2008)
Divisions:
Sega (2008 – )
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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.

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

Videos

Music

Books

Interviews

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Photographs

Main article: Photos of Takashi Iizuka

References

  1. ↑ http://sega.jp/segavoice/vol21/ (Wayback Machine: 2008-04-01 08:56)
  2. ↑ https://blog.playstation.com/archive/2018/05/04/veteran-sega-developers-reveal-their-favourite-mega-drive-classics/
  3. ↑ https://www.4gamer.net/games/131/G013139/20111227008/ (Wayback Machine: 2023-10-21 18:00)
  4. ↑ https://app.famitsu.com/20171010_1150637/ (Wayback Machine: 2023-04-19 20:47)
  5. ↑ File:Golden Axe III MD credits.pdf
  6. ↑ File:Sonic the Hedgehog 3 MD credits.pdf
  7. ↑ File:Sonic & Knuckles MD credits.pdf
  8. ↑ File:NiGHTS into Dreams Saturn credits.pdf
  9. ↑ File:Sonic 3D Blast MD credits.pdf
  10. ↑ File:Sonic Jam Saturn credits.pdf
  11. ↑ File:Sonic R Saturn credits.pdf
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 File:Sonic 3D Blast Saturn credits.pdf
  13. ↑ File:ChuChu Rocket! GBA credits.pdf
  14. ↑ File:Sonic Advance GBA credits.pdf
  15. ↑ File:SonicMegaCollection GC US Credits.pdf
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 File:SonicRivals2 PSP US manual.pdf, page 23
  17. ↑ File:CutsUnleashed CD JP front.pdf, page 3
  18. ↑ File:MDSA2OST poster1.pdf, page 1
  19. ↑ File:SA2OST CD US booklet.pdf, page 10
  20. ↑ File:TripleThreat CD JP booklet.pdf, page 2
  21. ↑ File:CompleteTrinity CD JP booklet.pdf, page 8
  22. ↑ File:LostandFound CD JP booklet.pdf, page 6
  23. ↑ File:TrueBlue CD JP booklet.pdf, page 5
  24. ↑ File:TalesofKnighthood CD JP booklet.pdf, page 10
  25. ↑ File:FacetoFaith CD JP booklet.pdf, page 11
  26. ↑ File:TrueColorsTray.jpg
  27. ↑ File:VividSound CD JP booklet.pdf, page 18
  28. ↑ File:SonicCD OST Tray.jpg
  29. ↑ File:Live! CD JP booklet.pdf, page 15
  30. ↑ File:SLWOSTWB CD JP booklet.pdf, page 22
  31. ↑ File:SonicAdventureMusicExperience CD JP Box Tokyo.jpg
  32. ↑ File:SMPOST CD JP booklet.pdf, page 3
  33. ↑ File:MaximumOverdrive CD JP inlay front.jpg
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