Toshihiro Nagoshi

Toshihiro Nagoshi (名越 稔洋, Nagoshi Toshihiro^?, born in June 17, 1965 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi) is a Japanese video game producer and designer for Sega. Nagoshi headed Sega AM4/Amusement Vision. He is best known as the producer and director of the Super Monkey Ball series, excluding Super Monkey Ball Adventure. His credits also include Virtua Striker, Daytona USA, and Spikeout. He and his studio teamed with Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo for F-Zero GX on the Nintendo GameCube. He is the producer for the multi-million dollar budget Ryu ga Gotoku series, released in North America and Europe as Yakuza series. He was recently involved in the latest version of Super Monkey Ball, entitled Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz, for Nintendo's Wii console. He was also the voice actor of Jackson in Sega-AM2's Burning Rival.

Production history

• Virtua Racing (1992) — Chief Designer
• Burning Rival (1993) — Voice Actor
• Daytona USA (1995) — Special Thanks
• Shenmue (1999) — Supervisor(Sega AM4)
• Super Monkey Ball (2001) — Producer, Director
• Super Monkey Ball Jr. (2002) — Producer, Director
• Super Monkey Ball 2 (2002) — Producer, Director
• Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 Plus (2003) — Executive Management
• F-Zero GX (2003) — Producer
• Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (2003) — Executive Management
• Sonic Battle (2004) — Executive Management
• Sonic Heroes (2004) — Development Division
• Sonic Advance 3 (2004) — Development Division
• Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon (2004) — Executive Producer
• Yakuza (2005) — General Supervisor, General Producer
• Spikeout: Battle Street (2005) — Producer
• Sonic Riders (2006) — Development Support
• Yakuza 2 (2006) — Producer
• Super Monkey Ball 3 (2006) — Producer, Director
• NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams (2007) — Chief Producer
• The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return (2007) — Chief Producer
• Yakuza: Kenzan! (2008) — Producer
• Sonic Unleashed (2008) — Chief Producer
• Yakuza 3 (2009) — Producer
• Sonic and the Black Knight (2009) — Chief Producer
• Puyo Puyo 7 (2009) — Chief Producer
• Yakuza 4 (2010) — Producer
• Binary Domain (2012) — Producer

References

External links

• Tohishiro Nagoshi Interview Summer 2006
• July 2004 Kikizo Games Interview
• October 2005 Kikizo Games Interview
• December 2004 Got-Next Interview
• Official blog (Japanese)

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Name	Nagoshi, Toshihiro
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