Midlife Gamer meets: Yuji Naka

It's not often you get to talk to a true legend, a person who has affected the lives of almost every gamer on the face of the planet, but that's exactly what we did when we hooked up with Yuji Naka, creator of Sonic and maker of the recent Ivy The Kiwi? for DS and Wii. In this special video interview, he talks to us about his latest title, why it won't be coming to either Sony or Microsoft's platforms, why Move and Kinect have him excited, that he'd love to make another Burning Rangers AND a new Girl's Garden, how it was an 'easy decision' to leave SEGA and why he's said 'goodbye' to Sonic.

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• Yuji Naka
• Sonic
• SEGA
• Ivy the Kiwi
• Prope
• interview
• gaming
• midlife
• gamer
• Sonic Team
• nintendo
• wii
• ds
• move
• kinect
• microsoft
• sony
• playstation
• 360
• Girl's Garden
• Burning Rangers
• hedgehog

[SonicXlover96]

@TrueOfLight67 ask him 4 more sonic x episodes 4 me :P :L

[SonicXlover96]

@VGMDude how? wha e do?

[12al34]

Woah, way to go left-field there, VGMDude. In my opinion, the guy is merely overrated because people single him out as the sole creator of the sonic character and games. In actuality, it was a joint effort on the fledgeling Sonic Team's part that created the franchise that, in all respect, is also overrated... And just so I don't come off as a Nintendo fanboy; Mario, Zelda and Metroid are also conversely overrated. Although that's a larger discussion...

[TrueOfLight67]

i want to meet him when i go to Japan

[danrjfrost]

The guy created Sonic, if he says steak is a biscuit who am I to argue!!

[Mustela13]

does this man not know what a biscuit is?