Uchida also created Altered Beast and Alien Storm.
When you talk about famously loyal and long-serving Japanese game developers, names like Shigeru Miyamoto and Yu Suzuki inevitably spring up. Miyamoto, as we all know, joined Nintendo in the late ’70s and has created some of the most famous video games of all time, while Suzuki is responsible for hits such as OutRun, After Burner, Virtua Fighter and Shenmue, and while he is no longer employed by Sega, he continues to be one of the most notable people associated with the company’s legacy.
That’s actually a little unfair on people like Makoto Uchida, another Sega staffer who helped create some of the company’s most recognisable games but doesn’t have anywhere near the level of fame as Suzuki—or Yuji Naka, another ex-employee who recently enjoyed a well-publicised scrape with the law. What’s amazing is that Uchida is still working for Sega today, almost 40 years after joining the company.
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Uchida also created Altered Beast and Alien Storm.
When you talk about famously loyal and long-serving Japanese game developers, names like Shigeru Miyamoto and Yu Suzuki inevitably spring up. Miyamoto, as we all know, joined Nintendo in the late ’70s and has created some of the most famous video games of all time, while Suzuki is responsible for hits such as OutRun, After Burner, Virtua Fighter and Shenmue, and while he is no longer employed by Sega, he continues to be one of the most notable people associated with the company’s legacy.
That’s actually a little unfair on people like Makoto Uchida, another Sega staffer who helped create some of the company’s most recognisable games but doesn’t have anywhere near the level of fame as Suzuki—or Yuji Naka, another ex-employee who recently enjoyed a well-publicised scrape with the law. What’s amazing is that Uchida is still working for Sega today, almost 40 years after joining the company.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
