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!")

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.

Re:syntax error

[simoniker]

Thanks, fixed.

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 [wpp-fansubs.com] and Team Artail [artail.net] 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.

Re:comment from the peanut gallery

[Asmor]

Personally I wasn't too thrilled with Sonic X, and I'm not complaining. I wanna know when Wolfpack'll start churning out some more Rockman.exe Axess goddammit!

Re:comment from the peanut gallery

[bersl2]

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.

Re:comment from the peanut gallery

[Nakamiya]

Tthey are getting & moving to a deticated server. It will be back up in a few days.

They lost a multi-million-dollar F1 car.

[Pluvius]

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

Rob

Obligatory bitching

[Stormwatch]

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

Goddamn it!

[YOU LIKEWISE FAIL IT]

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