developer
Sonic Team
ソニックチーム
Japan
About
Sonic Team is a Sega internal development studio founded by Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara around the development of Sonic the Hedgehog (1991). The team is responsible for the Sonic the Hedgehog series, NiGHTS into Dreams (1996), Burning Rangers (1998), Phantasy Star Online (2000), and Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (2003). NiGHTS into Dreams — developed for the Sega Saturn in 1996 — remains one of Sonic Team's most original and critically celebrated works, designed around the Saturn's analogue 3D Control Pad.