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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. from the everybody's-super-sonic-racing dept. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try to get your feet back on the ground.

    When you're Super-Sonic racing, there's no time to fuck around.

  2. Yuji Naka by Nakamiya · · Score: 4, Funny

    is the sexiest man in the games industry

  3. comment from the peanut gallery by bersl2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Sonic X English dub sucks. Both organizations that have made fansubs up to this point, WolfPackProductions and Team Artail have not turned out any episode past 11. Goddamnit.

    And the back-in-the-day ABC series still was more dramatic and had more potential. Oh well, I should be happy with what I have now.

    1. 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.

  4. They lost a multi-million-dollar F1 car. by Pluvius · · Score: 4, Funny

    And people wonder why Sega never really made it in the hardware business.

    Rob

  5. 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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    Circumcision is child abuse.
  6. Goddamn it! by YOU+LIKEWISE+FAIL+IT · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Shin Sangoku Musou [Koei's Dynasty Warriors series] in Asia

    Arrgh! I passed on picking 3 & 4 of these up because they got panned in the reviews I read. Is this another Eastern tastes / Western tastes thing?

    YLFI
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    One god, one market, one truth, one consumer.