Yuji Naka (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Yuji Naka, is a video game designer, programmer, the former head of Sonic Team, a group of Sega programmers/designers, the lead programmer of the original Sonic the Hedgehog and the head of Prope. Naka saw that Sega was looking for programming assistants. After a brief interview, he was hired and began working on a game called Girl's Garden, which earned him critical praise and fan appreciation. He and a colleague originally developed Girl's Garden as a part of their training when they joined Sega. After seeing it, their boss decided to publish the game. He programmed the original Sonic the Hedgehog game, while Naoto shima designed the character and Hirokazu Yasuhara designed the stages. Naka has also produced several other titles like Nights into Dreams..., Burning Rangers and Phantasy Star Online. In early games he was often credited as "YU2" (in reference to Yu Suzuki) and "Muuu Yuji." He is also one of the few famous Japanese game creators to speak English.