who made sonic the hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog was created by a small Sega team led by programmer Yuji Naka and artist Naoto Ohshima, working with designer Hirokazu Yasuhara at Sega’s Sonic Team in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Who “made” Sonic the Hedgehog?

If you mean “who invented the character Sonic the Hedgehog?”:

• The character is credited to Japanese creators Yuji Naka (game programmer, core gameplay concept) and Naoto Ohshima (character designer).

• Hirokazu Yasuhara was the main game designer who built levels and overall game structure around Sonic’s speed-focused concept.

• They worked at Sega, in a group that later took the name Sonic Team , specifically to build a mascot to rival Nintendo’s Mario.

If you mean “who made the first Sonic the Hedgehog game (1991)?”:

• It was developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive in 1991.

• About fifteen people worked on that original game, forming the core Sonic Team group.

A simple way to picture it: Ohshima sketched the blue hedgehog, Naka built the fast looping gameplay, and Yasuhara turned both into full levels and a finished game, all under Sega’s Sonic Team banner.

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