Yuji Naka Talks Sonic, GTA, Emulators

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!")

Comments

from the everybody's-super-sonic-racing dept.

[Anonymous Coward]

Try to get your feet back on the ground.

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

Yuji Naka

[Nakamiya]

is the sexiest man in the games industry

comment from the peanut gallery

[bersl2]

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.

They lost a multi-million-dollar F1 car.

[Pluvius]

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

Rob