Yuji Naka On Sonic, Employee Defection, Billy Hatcher

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday May 27, 2003 @10:24AM from the naka-the-vengehog dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out a Computer And Video Games article interviewing Yuji Naka, boss of Sonic Team and creator of Nights and Sonic The Hedgehog. He discusses the shown-at-E3 Sonic Heroes, the forthcoming Gamecube exclusive Billy Hatcher, and also deals with the fact that a Sonic Team employee jumped ship to work at Naughty Dog with notably sharp words - "Some of the details [on the original Sonic games] ..were done by the guy who's working on Jak and Daxter right now. He was involved until Sonic 3, and after that for eight years he didn't do anything in Sega, so he was quite useless in Sega. We really didn't need him." Elsewhere, Naka interestingly reveals that Billy Hatcher started life as a four-player fighting game.

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Re:NiGHTS by simoniker · 2003-05-27 11:54 · Score: 4, Interesting

I actually got hold of Xmas NiGHTS when it was included as a cover-CD for the UK Sega Saturn magazine (here's a link that includes a picture of the disc.)

Would have to agree - NiGHTS is an all-time classic - there's something about the wonderful sense of well-being you get while playing it, and the strange but intuitive controls, that really make it gel - maybe even more so than the Sonic games for me. Yay.