Naoto Ohshima

Naoto Ohshima is a person that is credited in 22 games

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Naoto Ōshima is an ex-Sega member and the head of Artoon creating many games like Sonic, NiGHTS, and Blinx.

Naoto Ōshima was a Sega and Sonic Team game designer. He now runs his own game developer called Artoon. Before Sonic, he was working on the Phantasy Star series. He made the first Phantasy Star for the Master System and the 2nd game for the Genesis. Then Naoto Ōshima teamed up with Yuji Naka in order to make a mascot that can compete with Mario and can replace Alex Kidd. Naoto Ōshima went to work on making a new character. He went through many animals like a an armidillo, a dog, and many other designs. Then Naoto Ōshima drew a hedgehog next to Madona, and Yuji Naka decided to use the hedgehog, and that's how Sonic was born. For the Sonic games, Naoto Ōshima was the lead designer for the characters in the series.

Over his time at Sonic Team, Naoto Ōshima helped create many other great games by Sega like Sonic CD, NiGHTS into Dreams, Burning Rangers, and Sonic Adventure. In 1999, Naoto Ōshima decided to leave Sega in order to work on new games. After leaving Sega, Naoto Ōshima began working on games like Silent Hill and Kessen, but later formed his own developing company, Artoon. There he made games for Microsoft like Blinx and make games for Nintendo like Yoshi's Island DS. Naoto Ōshima continues to make great games wiht his company.

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Name	Platforms	Developer
Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams...	SAT	Sonic Team
AWAY: shuffle dungeon released on Oct. 29, 2008	DS	Artoon Co., Ltd., Mistwalker Corporation
Yoshi's Island DS released on Nov. 13, 2006	DS	Artoon Co., Ltd.
Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space released on Nov. 18, 2004	XBOX	Artoon Co., Ltd.
Silent Hill 4: The Room released on Sept. 7, 2004	PC, PS2, XBOX	Team Silent, Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
Silent Hill 3 released on Aug. 6, 2003	PC, PS2, XBOX	Team Silent, Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
Blinx the Time Sweeper released on Oct. 7, 2002	XBOX	Artoon Co., Ltd.
Pinobee: Wings of Adventure	GBA	Artoon Co., Ltd.
Kessen released on Oct. 26, 2000	PS2	KOEI Co., Ltd.
Sonic Adventure released on Sept. 9, 1999	PC, DC	Sonic Team
Silent Hill released on Jan. 31, 1999	PS1	Konami Corporation, Team Silent
Burning Rangers	SAT	Sonic Team
Sonic R released on Nov. 18, 1997	PC, SAT	Traveller's Tales Ltd.
Sonic Jam released on July 31, 1997	GCOM, SAT	Sonic Team
Sonic 3D Blast released on Nov. 1, 1996	PC, SAT, GEN, WSHP	Traveller's Tales Ltd.
NiGHTS into Dreams... released on Aug. 31, 1996	PS2, SAT	Sonic Team
Knuckles' Chaotix	32X	Sega
Sonic CD released on Nov. 19, 1993	PC, SCD	Sega
Sonic the Hedgehog released on June 23, 1991	SMS, IPOD, GBA, GEN, WSHP, XBLM, GG	Sonic Team
Fatal Labyrinth	GEN	Sega
Phantasy Star II released on March 21, 1989	GEN, WSHP	Sega AM7 R&D Division
Phantasy Star	SMS, GEN

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Full Name:	Naoto Ohshima
Gender:	Male
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Death:	n/a
Credited In:	22 games
1st Game Credit:	Phantasy Star
Currently Working For:	Artoon Co., Ltd.
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Country:	Japan
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