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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.
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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.
- Manabu Takemura (Street Fighter), Shoei Okano (Street Fighter II)
- Street Fighter (1987)
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.
Jul 7, 2020 · Takashi Nishiyama (Street Fighter director, Capcom Japan) The problem was, during location tests, we realized that it was very tiring to hit the sensor over and over. It was basically like...
- Matt Leone
Jul 2, 2017 · While Nishiyama exaggerated real-life martial arts to create the blazing uppercut known as a Shoryuken and the helicopter blade spin-kick known as Tatsumaki Senpukyaku, the Hadouken was lifted ...
Jan 7, 2021 · 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 fighting game genre and gave a much-needed jolt to the ...
