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Retronauts Episode 154: SEGA special - Phantasy Star Interview - After Burner II - Space Harrier - Streets of Rage 3

Retronauts

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

All SEGA, all the time! First, a chat with Phantasy Star designers Rieko Kodama and Toru Yoshida. Then, an in-depth look at DataDiscs' releases of the classic OSTs for After Burner II, Space Harrier, and Streets of Rage 3. Special thanks to Alex Aniel!

Transcript

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0:00.0

As we can return out its pH not L.

0:02.4

We're welcome to a RetroNots episode recorded live and on site in...

0:30.4

We're in Japan, it's in Tokyo, but what part of Tokyo?

0:34.4

We are in OtaWord, near Hanate Airport.

0:38.4

We are at the headquarters of SEGA and have the very rare and exciting opportunity today to speak to two long-time SEGA veterans.

0:48.4

Instead of me rambling a lot, I'll jump straight into the questions.

0:54.4

Some of these are related to the new SEGA Genesis Classics release for PS4 and Xbox One,

1:02.4

and also the upcoming SEGA ages for Nintendo Switch.

1:06.4

I was speaking to Ms. Riego Kodama and Mr. Toru Yoshida, who have lots of games in these collections,

1:17.4

and are still active and vital creative forces with SEGA.

1:22.4

So again, instead of rambling a lot, I'm just going to turn over the mic to them and let them talk.

1:47.4

So yeah, thank you both for taking the time to be on the show today.

2:01.4

I really appreciate you coming to join the show and talk about your experiences with these games.

2:08.4

So I was hoping you could both begin just by giving a brief introduction.

2:12.4

I'm assuming most people will say to the show, no who are, but just in case, a really quick introduction of kind of your brief history with SEGA and what you do with the company now.

2:22.4

Hi, my name is Riego Kodama, and I am a producer at SEGA.

2:32.4

And I had promised Jeremy that I would do this interview before, but it took a lot of time getting it together.

2:39.4

So I'm very happy now that we have this opportunity to do this today.

2:44.4

Hi, I'm Yoshida Toru.

2:46.4

Hello, my name is Toru Yoshida, and I am at SEGA, and I work on promotional graphic design materials for smartphones.

3:01.4

And today I'm very happy to talk about interesting topics related to the Genesis Mega Drive today.

3:07.4

So I wanted to begin by asking Ms. Kodama, I know that you studied graphic design, and I'm curious how that led you to becoming involved in video games.

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