Producer
Osamu Ohashi

Game Director
Eigo Kasahara

Planning Director
Koji Shindo

Program Director
Naohiro Hirao

Design Director
Tomoharu Tanaka

Animation Design Director
Keiichi Kizu

3D Design Director
Fumiyoshi Sakauchi

Planners
Yugo Ogura
Daisuke Kawai
Mika Matsuba
Nobuya Ohashi

Sonic Family Character Supervisors
Yuji Uekawa
Sachiko Kawamura

Planning Supervisor
Shun Nakamura

Programmers
Yoshitaka Kawabata
Takuya Yamazaki
Kentaro Fujita
Takenori Kato
Toshimichi Okajima
Keiichi Noda
Takuma Komatsu
Yoshihiko Toyoshima
Maki Nishimori
Tomoyuki Ohwatari

2D Designer
Katsuhiko Sato

3D Designers
Mie Sawaki
Taeko Abe
Yoshinari Amaike
Hitomi Nagao
Wataru Kawahara
Ken Kogawa
Akane Hayashi
Toru Honda

Chief Animation Designer
Motohiro Fukui

Animation Designers
Kentaro Nina
Soichiro Kobayashi
Hiroyuki Abe
Hiroi Sato
Kenji Odakura
Ko Ishitoya
Mieko Ajima
Kouichi Shibuya
Tatsuya Zaizen

Planning Section Assistants
Shingo Kawakami
Daisuke Takahashi

Development Manager
Tomohiko Sato
Kenji Mitani

Project Leader
Kenichi Kaji
Kenshi Abe

Plan Leader
Masaki Oka
Takeshi Saitou

Planners
Hideshi Kyounen
Koji Yasumura
Yuu Shigehisa
Takashi Endou
Yoshinobu Ohyama

Program Leader
Hitoshi Tatemoto
Takeshi Machida

Programmers
Toshiro Kawamura
Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Shuji Kurino
Masato Kimura
Yasunobu Matsumura
Jun Masago
Masami Miyami
Jun Oyanagi
Takahiro Takahashi
Ken Hattori

Designer Leader
Masahiko Sawada
Mari Sawashima

Designers
Koichi Kizato
Hiroyuki Shigetomi
Mitsuru Kawasaki
Satoshi Wada
Hiroaki Banba
Miki Kido
Yuki Yamanaka
Reiko Matsumoto
Akihiko Abe
Naoyuki Hironaka
Misako Sakai
Chieko Akizuki
Kako Shigemoto
Satoshi Kitaoka
Akihiko Nakajima
Yasuhiro Tamaki
Akira Masuda
Takayuki Nakamura
Ayumi Miyake
Marumi Nakajyo
Hidenobu Takemoto
Kazuhiro Kimura
Naoki Taji
Keizi Nishino
Nobuhiro Shimada
Kouki Watari
Hiroyuki Matsumoto
Hisashi Ooshio
Kunikazu Yanagisawa
Kouichi Soeda
Takeshi Miyamoto
Emiko Shindou
Reiko Komatsu
Chizuko Tamura
Yudai Niwa
Kazuhiko Fukuhara
Osamu Machida
Kohji Shimozawa
Miki Fujimoto
Tsuyoshi Miyazaki
Syohei Yoshimoto
Miyuki Nogawa
Akira Kawasaki
Jun Okada

Sound Leader
Isao Kasai

Sound Designers
Kenji Tani
Makoto Suehiro
Yasuhiko Akanishi
Masahiko Hataya
Kiron

Development Officer
Tetsuo Nakano
Takeshi Murata
Keisuke Makino
Makoto Nakabayashi

Opening Movie

Producer
Masahito Imamura

Director
Takashi Nakashima

Design Managers
Jun Masuda
Takuya Hada

Project Manager
Ayano Fukuda

Coordinator
Akira Itou

Modeling Supervisors
Kenichi Nishida
Hideyuki Higashi

Animation Supervisors
Jiro Yamagishi

Designers
Takuya Imamura
Hiroyuki Yagi
Toshihiro Aramaki
Masaki Iwahashi

Modeling Designers
Hideaki Makinouchi
Yutaka Yamaki
Emiri Minagawa

Animators
Tsuyoshi Tanaka
Tatsunori Tomiyama

VFX Designers
Yoshihisa Inoue
Shuntaro Furukawa
Takeyuki Suzuki
Wataru Kitamura
Kazuma Muneto

Designers
Takafumi Arai
Takashi Kawamura
Daisuke Miura
Tadamitu Kurihara
Minobu Fujii

Sound

Sound Producer "Opening & Ending Theme" Music & Orchestra Arranged by
Teruhiko Nakagawa

Scoring & Conducted by
Masamicz Amano

Recording Producer
Fumitaka Shibata

Recording Directors
Kotaro Kamada
Carl Shibata
Kan Hashimoto

Scoring Engineer
Damon Tedesco

Opening Movie Sound Effect
Hideaki Kobayashi

Character Voices
Jason Griffith
Amy Palant
Dan Green
Lisa Ortiz
Mike Pollock
Bella Hudson
Rebecca Honig
Amy Birnbaum
David Willis

Narrators
Christopher Pelligrini
Virginia Sorrells

Narration Coordinator
Akiko Nakahata

Recording Engineers
Naoyuki Machida
Shinya Tsuruta
Yoshitada Miya

Localized Voices Effect
Tomoe Fukasawa

Sound Special Thanks
Jun Senoue
Kenichi Tokoi
Tomoya Ohtani
Hideki Naganuma
Ai Muroi
Salvatore Oppedisano
Chris Collet
Mike Knoblauch
Suzy Goldish

Sonic the Hedgehog Original Music by
Masato Nakamura

License Team Manager
Rentaro Nagahara

License Coordinators
Sachiko Kobayashi
Takuma Hatori
Rika Shirai

Localization & Marketing Support
Nobuyuki Minato
Hiroshi Nagata
Mari Yamazaki

Publicity
Yasushi Nagumo

Marketing
Hiroshi Utsumi
Osamu Sato

Manual Production
Yoshihiro Sakuta
Hiroki Osawa
Takashi Nishimura
Masaru Kobayashi
Hisakazu Nakagawa
Makoto Nishino
Kaoru Miki
Tetsuya Honda
Sonoko Kai

Product Test
Junichi Shimizu
Akira Nishikawa
Hiroyuki Miyano
Akinobu Koechi
Takayoshi Tanaka
Kaname Yamada
Kazuhiko Morii
Yuji Nakamura

Special Thanks
Kazuhiro Fumoto
Tatsuyuki Miyazaki
Shinobu Shindo
Osamu Hori
Atsutoshi Takahashi
Hisato Tanaka
Jiro Terakawa
Tomoko Yamada
Taira Nakamura
Kota Terada
Naoki Sakaue
Hirofumi Konnai
Toshihiko Yahagi
Yasushi Yamashita
Ryoutaro Fukunaga
Yohei Shibata
Kengo Uda

Sega of America

CEO
Naoya Tsurumi

President and COO
Simon Jeffery

VP of Product Development
Dave Cobb

VP of Sales
Sue Hughes-Taigen

Localization Manager
John Merlino

Producer
Patrick Riley

VP of Marketing
Scott A. Steinberg

Director of Marketing
Don Mesa

Product Marketing Manager
Ben Harrison

Marketing Coordinator
Mabel Chung

Senior Public Relations Manager
Steve Groll

Creative Services Manager
Jen Groeling

Production Specialist
Heather Lucchetti

Development Services Manager
Deni Skeens

QA Supervisor
Josh Morton

Mastering Lab Coordinator
Rhianna Kellom

Mastering Lab Technicians
Rey Buzon
Ray Vasquez
Scott Sampson

Senior QA Leads
Demetrius Griffin
Shawn Dobbins

Test Lead
Michael Baldwin

Onsite Language Testing
Teressa Guest

Assistant Test Lead
Matthew Hickman

Standards Supervisor
Stephen Akana

Compliancy Lead
Junior Sison
Lawrence Mann

Compliancy Techs
Joe Floyd
Eddy Camacho
John Belcher
Christine Letheby

Testers
Kenny Robinson
Will Castleberry
Jayson Cook
Dominick Modica
Almond Perez
Alice Grunstra
Alex Ryan

Hardware Technician
Matt Ellison

Director of Web Development
Chris Olson

Web Producer
Marjorie Puruganan

Online Art Director
Rodwin Pabello

Senior Web Developer
Ricky Viray

Special Thanks
Osamu Shibamiya
Foghorn PR
France Tantiado
Keith Palmer
Jason Kuo

Sega of Europe

President and COO
Mike Hayes

Development Director
Gary Dunn

Director of European Marketing
Gary Knight

Head of Studio, Localization
Kuniyo Matsumoto

Producer
Warren Leigh

Senior Producer- Localization
Akiko Uchida

Head of PR
Lynn Daniel

Marketing Manager
David Corless

Senior Brand Manager
Helen Lawson

International Brand Manager
Ben Chalmers-Stevens

Online Marketing Manager
Mike Evans

Online Development Manager
Nina Ahmad

Online Creative Manager
Bennie Booysen

Senior Community Manager
Romily Broad

Web Designer
Nawaz Alamgir

Legal Counsel
Nicola Steel
Mark Bennett

Licensing Manager
Nivine Emeran

Head of Development Services
Mark Le Breton

Localization Manager
Marta Lois Gonzalez

Localization Coordinator
Giuseppe Rizzo

QA Shift Manager
Marlon Grant
Stuart Arrowsmith

Senior Team Lead
Ben Howell

Team Lead
James Langtry

Testers
Stuart Fenn
Paul Rogers
Jessica Padkin
George Birley

Standard Coordinator
Mohammed Ajaib

Standard Technicians
Tom East
Aaron Wright
Hiroki Saito

Senior Language Team Lead
Jean-Baptiste Bagot

Assistant Language Team Lead & Language Tester (Ger)
Joe Hellmann

Language Testers
Rafael Bermudez
Tina Ferraro
Julien Grelet

Nintendo

Graphic Supervisors
Yo Ohnishi
Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Illustration Supervisors
Yusuke Nakano
Wataru Yamaguchi

Sound Supervisors
Koji Kondo
Taro Bando

Voices
Charles Martinet
Jen Taylor
Scott Burns
Kazumi Totaka
Deanna Mustard
Nate Bihldorff
Dex Manley
Sanae Suzaki
Yoji Inagaki
Toru Asakawa

Technical Support
Shintaro Jikumaru

Artwork
Ryo Koizumi
Yasuo Inoue

Coordination
Emi Watanabe
Yuya Sato
Keisuke Nakamura

Associate Producers
Toyokazu Nonaka
Miyuki Hirose

Producer
Hiroshi Sato

Senior Producer
Shigeru Miyamoto

Executive Producer
Satoru Iwata

ISM

Executive Producer
Raymond Goldsmith

Business Affairs
Derek Mitchell

Project Director
Jonathan Kemp

Visual Elements & Gameplay
Lee Cocker

Olympic Approvals
Aaron Kirby

Olympic Approvals & Research
Riva Smith
Jenny Loudon

IOC Television & Marketing Services SA
Rebecca Perez
Rita Barsony

General Producers
Takaya Segawa
Akinori Nishiyama
Takashi Iizuka
Takeshi Itou

Executive Producers
Hisao Oguchi
Masanao Maeda
Hiroyuki Miyazaki
Takayuki Kawagoe