Nights was developed by Sonic Team, with Yuji Naka as producer and lead programmer, and Naoto Ōshima as the character designer and director.

Sonic Team specifically designed Nights as an androgynous character ; Takashi Iizuka commented, " Impressions of the character with regards to gender are totally up to the player.

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In 1991 AM8 took its name from the Sonic the Hedgehog series and became Sonic Team.

The American developers collaborated with Sonic Team in the development of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

Most of the STI staff worked on the zone art and special stages, while most of Sonic Team worked on the level designs and the programming.

However, due to most of the Sonic Team staff lacking the ability to speak English, there was trouble with language barriers and differences in approach to game design.

Sonic Team members worked very late nights and sometimes slept under their desks in order to perfectly achieve Yuji Naka's guidelines.

Sonic Team oversaw the development of every major Sonic title released on the Sega Mega Drive.

The launch of the Sega Saturn, and the cancellation of the beleaguered Sonic Xtreme title saw Sonic Team focus on other titles, including Nights Into Dreams and Burning Rangers.

Other Sonic Team Dreamcast titles included ChuChu Rocket !, Samba de Amigo, and Phantasy Star Online.

In 2000, Sonic Team officially became Sonic Team Ltd.

In 2002, the other creator of Sonic, Hirokazu Yasuhara, left Sonic Team when he moved to Naughty Dog.

Also during this phase, United Game Artists ( formerly Sega AM9 ) merged with Sonic Team Japan in 2003 to start the Sonic Riders series.

My influences are Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac " to which guitarist Eric Erlandson replied.

They are more well known for their work on Space Channel 5, Rez and the Sonic Riders series. The United Game Artists Logo

In relation to the prop, the size and proportions of the toy are broadly similar, unlike 2005-2010 Sonic Screwdriver, where which the toy version was made larger to accommodate a working soundchip.

Leading software vendors in this field are: Microsoft Corporation ( Microsoft Voice Command ), Digital Syphon ( Sonic Extractor ), LumenVox, Nuance Communications ( Nuance Voice Control ), Speech Technology Center, Vito Technology ( VITO Voice2Go ), Speereo Software ( Speereo Voice Translator ), Verbyx VRX and SVOX.

# Video game soundtracks are often released after a game's release, usually consisting of the background music from the game's levels, menus, title screens, promo material ( such as entire songs that only segments of which were used in the game ), cut-screens and occasionally sound-effects used in the game ( Examples: Sonic Heroes, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time )

A system can achieve a very effective depth of field if layers with rasters are combined ; Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, ActRaiser, and Street Fighter II used this effect well.

Alternative rock bands from the Northeastern United States, including Sonic Youth, Pixies, and Dinosaur Jr., are important influences on the genre.

While improvements are present, the game is still very similar to the basic set-up of the original Sonic the Hedgehog game.

Shortly after, Sonic and Tails in their biplane, the Tornado, are in search of Dr. Robotnik.

Compilations that include the game are Sonic Jam ( 1997 ) for the Sega Saturn ; Sonic & Knuckles Collection ( 1997 ) and Sonic & Garfield Pack ( 1999 ) for the PC, Sonic Mega Collection ( 2002 ) for the Nintendo GameCube ; Sonic Mega Collection Plus ( 2004 ) for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC ; Sega Genesis Collection ( 2006 ) for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable ; Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection ( 2009 ) for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 ; and Sonic Classic Collection ( 2010 ) for the Nintendo DS.

Coincidentally, the graphics in Sonic 3, especially the backgrounds, are pretty elaborate, as well as full of animated effects, such as swaying plants and heat distortion.

Several small technology companies are also based in Novato, such as 2K Marin, Radiant Logic, Imagemovers Digital, Toys For Bob, International Genetics Incorporated, Channel Management Solutions, Enwisen, and Sonic Solutions.

There are some major food chains in Roanoke such as Subway, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Taco Bueno, Sonic, Chili's, McDonald's, and Dickey's Barbecue.

My influences are Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac.

Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of styles that are: " too sensitive and melancholy ; too soft and delicate ; too dreamy and hypnotic ; too personal and intimately revealing in its lyrics ; too low-fidelity and low-budget in its production ; too angular in its melodies and riffs ; too raw, skronky and abrasive, wrapped in too many sheets of Sonic Youth / Dinosaur Jr ./ Pixies / Jesus & Mary Chain-style guitar noise ; too oblique and fractured in its song structures ; too influenced by experimental or otherwise unpopular musical styles.

Ten of the included games are installments of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, while the remaining two to four games are only related to the series by company.

The album was at best hoped to be a minor success on par with Sonic Youth's Goo, which Geffen had released a year earlier.

IGN praised the Virtual Console release, giving it a 9 out of 10, and claimed it was the best of the original trilogy of Sonic games for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, stating " Sonic 1 we called impressive.

Sonic 3, though, is the best of them all – and deservingly earns the highest score of the trilogy.

" Game Informer declared Sonic Mega Collection to be " perhaps the best compilation ever.

On August 4, 2012, they performed in Bangkok, Thailand, in the Sonic Attack 2012: 90s The best !!!

ScrewAttack also rated Sonic Adventure 2 as the fifth best Dreamcast game.

He fears Robotropolis and, unlike his best friend Sonic, usually stays behind to work.

Sonic hedgehog is the best established example of a morphogen as defined by Lewis Wolpert's French flag model — a molecule that diffuses to form a concentration gradient and has different effects on the cells of the developing embryo depending on its concentration.

, is a video game designer and programmer, best known as the former head of Sonic Team, a group of Sega programmers / designers, where he was the lead programmer of the original Sonic the Hedgehog.

Contrary to earlier games in the series, collecting all Chaos Rings does not award the player with special powers ( but it does reward them with the best ending, in which Sonic and Tails make cameo appearances ).

Taylor's double-CD Unglorious Hallelujah / Red Red Rose, his first solo album in five years, was quickly hailed as " a future classic " by Sonic Magazine, whose reviewer declared: " This is the best we've heard from Chip Taylor so far.

Jaleel Ahmad White ( born November 27, 1976 ) is an American actor and screenwriter, best known for his role as Steve Urkel in Family Matters and voicing the character of Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as other characters for the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

In a 2001 interview, influential alternative musician and producer Jim O ' Rourke ( known for his work with Sonic Youth, amongst others ) picked a Togawa Jun cover song album 20th Jun Togawa as one of his " best albums of the year.

Sonic does retain his ability to walk and Spin Dash, however there is a time limit in each stage so it is best to move quickly.

Paul Smith is probably best known as the founder and manager of Blast First, the British alternative record label that released artists such as Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers, Big Black and Dinosaur Jr. in the UK.

Born Elizabeth Carr, Lung Leg ( born July 8, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) is best known for appearing on the cover of the Sonic Youth album EVOL.

Sonic Enemy is an independent record label, owned by Peter Hughes, best known for releasing Beck's first full length album on cassette, Golden Feelings ( 1993 ).

Sonic Team's Yuji Naka stated in an interview with GameSpy that he wanted to use Shadow as the game's main character due to his popularity among fans and being the best fit for a " gun action " game.

The noise rock version of the end credits performed by Sonic Youth has been ranked among the best versions of the theme by Matt Groening and also by Chris Turner in his book Planet Simpson.

Fred " Sonic " Smith, born Frederick Dewey Smith ( September 14, 1949 West Virginia – November 4, 1994 ) was an American guitarist, best known as a member of the band MC5.