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Takashi Nishiyama (Japanese: 西山隆志), sometimes credited as "Piston" Takashi Nishiyama or T. Nishiyama, is a Japanese video game designer, director and producer who worked for Irem, Capcom and SNK before founding his own company Dimps. He is best known for developing Kung-Fu Master, Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, and The King of Fighters.
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Takashi Nishiyama (西山 隆志, Nishiyama Takashi) is a Japanese game director, producer, and video game designer. He is credited as the creator of the Fatal Fury series and the Art of Fighting series. After SNK, Nishiyama founded Dimps with former SNK staff.
Before his career at Capcom, he worked with Irem on Spartan X, better known in the West as Kung Fu Master. He joined SNK in 1988 after he had finished directing the first Street Fighter game with Hiroshi Matsumoto.
Leaving SNK due to feeling the need to take responsibility for the coming dire situation at the time, he went on to found Dimps in 2000 when core staff of SNK also resigned after him, expecting Nishiyama to have some sort of plan. With the help of key people from Sammy (now Sega Sammy), Bandai Namco Games and CSK, he started Sokiac which was later renamed Dimps.
•Ghost Pilots - executive director
•Neo Turf Masters - "boss"; executive director
•The Ultimate 11 - SNK Football Championship - executive producer
•Fatal Fury - (III~Real Bout 2: producer)
•Art of Fighting 3 - producer
•The King of Fighters series ('94~'99: producer)
•Legendary Wings (1988, NES) - Director
•Last Duel (1988) - Director
•Demolish Fist (2003) - Executive producer
•The Rumble Fish (2004) - Executive producer
•Street Fighter IV (2009) - Executive producer
•Super Street Fighter IV (2010) - Executive producer
•Takashi Nishiyama at Wikipedia
•Takashi Nishiyama at TV Tropes
•Profile at IMDb
•Profile at MobyGames
•Archived interview with 1Up from the original on 2012-01-03
•Takashi Nishiyama's corporate message at Dimps website
He was created by Takashi Nishiyama. Nishiyama's inspiration was the martial artist Mas Oyama. For his second appearance, Ryu's design changed from that of a young fighter to a skilled karate practitioner. However, because of issues in the making of Street Fighter II, he possessed a major weakness within the cast. For the next titles, Ryu's ...
Jul 7, 2020 · Takashi Nishiyama (Street Fighter director, Capcom Japan) Yeah, I think there was a rivalry in the '80s. Capcom's Tsujimoto and SNK's Kawasaki originally were friendly with each other, but ...
- Matt Leone
Takashi Nishiyama (Japanese: 西山隆志), sometimes credited as Piston Takashi, Nishiyama or T. Nishiyama, is a Japanese video game designer, director and producer who worked for Irem, Capcom and SNK before founding his own company Dimps. He is best known for creating Street Fighter and Fatal Fury. After Takashi Nishiyama joined Capcom, he created the Street Fighter fighting game franchise ...
Jan 7, 2021 · The late ’90s weren’t kind to arcade fighting games. When Street Fighter director Takashi Nishiyama left Capcom for SNK in the late ’80s, he set in motion a series of events that built the ...
Jun 25, 2022 · Takashi Nishiyama has confirmed that the blond fighter seen punching a hole in the wall in the intro to Street Fighter is indeed the basis for the character who would become the legendary Terry ...
