Hirokazu Yasuhara

It's the perfect gadget punchline to a hedgehog launch week.

So the game, uh, Sonic the Hedgehog was built by Sonic Team at Sega in Japan with Yuji Naka on the code, Naoto Ohshima, uh, drawing that spiky blue mascot, and Hirokazu Yasuhara designing the levels.

You run right, you jump, you curl into a spin attack, and you grab golden rings.

Take a hit, and the rings spray everywhere.

It's like...

Because I guess what I'm trying to say is it's like you have this cartoon character that's drawn by Japanese cartoonist Naoto Oshima to accomplish the goals of Yuji Naka and Yasuhara, whose first name is...

Hirokazu.

Hirokazu.

Hirokazu Yasuhara and their great level design but so it is it's a commodity but then like to what you're saying David of the ways that Sonic gets the edges sanded off a little bit here by the American executives in the early 90s or this and then that but I want to throw all that off the table.

I'm going to Miyamoto flip the tea table and upend that thought and just say that I think that's, you know, also, I think what you're saying, it's good and lovely that Sonic has multiple different interpretations.

Fair enough.