Yasushi Yamaguchi

Yasushi Yamaguchi (山口恭史, Yamaguchi Yasushi) is a Japanese game designer and artist. He designed the character Miles "Tails" Prower in an internal contest hosted by Sonic Team.^[1] He originally named the character "Miles Prower", however SEGA wanted to call the character "Tails". SEGA and Yamaguchi reached a compromise on his name, with "Miles Prower" being the character's full legal name and "Tails" being his nickname.

His main work was that of both creating and designing Tails as well as being the Chief Artist and one of the Zone artists in Sonic the Hedgehog 2.^[2]

He also worked as the Special Stage Designer in Sonic CD and on other Sega related games.^[3]

Production history

Cyborg Hunter (1988) — Designer
Phantasy Star II (1989) — Mechanical Design
Last Battle (1989) — Special Designer under the name Judy Totoya
Sorcerian (1990) - Graphic Designer for the Mega Drive version under the name Judy Totoya
Advanced Daisenryaku (1991) - Unit Design - Land Unit for the Mega Drive version under the name Judy★Totoya
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) — Character Design, Chief Artist, Zone Artist
Kid Chameleon (1992) — Art
Sonic the Hedgehog CD (1993) — Special Stage Designer
Magic Knight Rayearth (1995) — Art Director
Wachenröder (1998) — Character Design

References

^ "Miles "Tails" Prower". Sonic Retro. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
^ "Sonic the Hedgehog 2". Zone: 0. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
^ "Sonic CD for Sega CD". GameFAQs. Retrieved December 2, 2020.

[1] "Miles "Tails" Prower". Sonic Retro. Retrieved December 2, 2020.

[2] "Sonic the Hedgehog 2". Zone: 0. Retrieved December 2, 2020.

[3] "Sonic CD for Sega CD". GameFAQs. Retrieved December 2, 2020.

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