Toshihiro Nagoshi
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| Native name | 名越 稔洋 |
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June 17, 1965 Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan |
| Occupation | Game producer, designer, director, board of director |
Toshihiro Nagoshi (名越 稔洋 Nagoshi Toshihiro?, born in June 17, 1965 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi) is a Japanese video game producer and designer. He is the Chief creative officer for Sega and a board of director for Atlus (formerly Sega Dream Corporation). He joined Sega in 1989.
Nagoshi graduated with a degree in movie production and joined Sega shortly thereafter, working for the second arcade department (AM2) at Sega under Yu Suzuki as a CG designer. His first title was Virtua Racing as a chief designer. Afterwards he created his own racing game, Daytona USA, where he was producer, director and chief designer. He created more arcade racing games with Scud Race in 1996 and Daytona USA 2 in 1998. By 1998, Nagoshi had his own arcade department, where he worked on SpikeOut.
In 2000, Sega separated its in-house R&D departments from the main company and established them in nine semi-autonomous subsidiaries, with each getting an elected president as a studio head. Toshihirio Nagoshi became head of Amusement Vision, where he further contributed to Sega's arcade line-up with Planet Harriers, SpikeOut sequels and spin-offs. For Dreamcast he remade his very first game, Daytona USA as Daytona USA 2001. As Sega became a third-party, he moved out of arcade development. Amusement Vision became most known for its for work on the Nintendo GameCube, with the first two Super Monkey Ball titles in 2001 and 2002, and F-Zero GX in 2003, Nagoshi made in conjunction with Shigeru Miyamoto. During the time of development of F-Zero GX, Nagoshi wrote a regular column in Edge, which was titled "AV Out" in reference to both Amusement Vision's initials, which was the name of his development division, and the consumer electronics term "A/V".
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