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Yuji Naka Talks Sonic, GTA, Emulators

Posted by simoniker on from the everybody's-super-sonic-racing dept.

Thanks to The Next Level for its newly published interview with Sega's head of Sonic Team, Yuji Naka. Naka discusses the games that impressed him most in 2003 ("probably GTA3 in the West and Shin Sangoku Musou [Koei's Dynasty Warriors series] in Asia"), his programming of a not-intended-for-release NES emulator for the Genesis/Megadrive ("I did it primarily for [private] study purposes. It ran things like Dr. Mario, although it did not work perfectly, actually."), and the whereabouts of the Sonic-sponsored Williams Formula 1 racing car from the '90s ("It's supposed to be in our offices or warehouses somewhere. We just can't seem to locate it anymore; we don't know where we put it!")

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  1. Obligatory bitching by Stormwatch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Goddamnit, Naka! Get your lazy ass off your comfy chair and go bring NiGHTS back from the limbo where you left him since 1996! >:(

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  2. Re:comment from the peanut gallery by bersl2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OK, so that's what those Bsubs are on bt.s0nicfreak.com. Which is mysteriously down right now.

    I guess I wasn't curious enough to see what they were.