Hirokazu Yasuhara
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Sonic series creators Yuji Naka (left), Naoto Ohshima (center), and Yasuhara (Right) at Sonic's 20th anniversary event in 2011
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| Native name | 安原 広和 |
| Born | October 12, 1965 (age 51) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Game designer |
| Notable work | Sonic the Hedgehog series |
Hirokazu Yasuhara (安原 広和 Yasuhara Hirokazu?, born October 12, 1965) (also credited as Carol Yas) is a Japanese video game designer. He is best known for designing the gameplay and stages of the initial Sonic the Hedgehog video games for Sega Genesis in the 1990s, based on technical demos and engines programmed by Yuji Naka. Yasuhara stayed with Sega until the late 1990s. He then joined Naughty Dog, working on the Jak and Daxter series and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, collaborating again with former Sega employee Mark Cerny. He was the senior design director at Namco Bandai Games America. In April 2012, Yasuhara joined Nintendo where he accepted a position at the Nintendo Software Technology division.
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