“It’s like clothes. If you find something you like, you just put it on”.
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, many western players would have been quite familiar with composer Yuzo Koshiro – after all, his name can be seen right on the title screens of games like Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage. But did you know that he has a sister, and she’s also involved in video games? Ayano Koshiro’s name can be found in the credits of games like ActRaiser, Streets of Rage 2 and the excellent Master System version of Sonic the Hedgehog. Ayano may have a famous sibling, but she’s an absolutely amazing designer and artist – and a major driving force behind many hits of the golden 16-Bit era.
In her early 20s, Ayano led the development of Streets of Rage 2, perhaps the best console beat ’em up of its time. She left her mark on both episodes of Quintet’s ActRaiser, while on the Mega-CD RPG Lunar: The Silver Star, she showed the young, newly-hired artists at Game Arts’ Studio Alex how to draw and animate a proper pixel monster.
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“It’s like clothes. If you find something you like, you just put it on”.
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, many western players would have been quite familiar with composer Yuzo Koshiro – after all, his name can be seen right on the title screens of games like Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage. But did you know that he has a sister, and she’s also involved in video games? Ayano Koshiro’s name can be found in the credits of games like ActRaiser, Streets of Rage 2 and the excellent Master System version of Sonic the Hedgehog. Ayano may have a famous sibling, but she’s an absolutely amazing designer and artist – and a major driving force behind many hits of the golden 16-Bit era.
In her early 20s, Ayano led the development of Streets of Rage 2, perhaps the best console beat ’em up of its time. She left her mark on both episodes of Quintet’s ActRaiser, while on the Mega-CD RPG Lunar: The Silver Star, she showed the young, newly-hired artists at Game Arts’ Studio Alex how to draw and animate a proper pixel monster.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
