Quick Facts
Biography
Takashi Nishiyama (Japanese: 西山隆志) is a Japanese video game designer, director and producer. He started his career at Irem where he worked on early arcade games such as Moon Patrol and Kung-Fu Master. He was co-director of the first Street Fighter game in 1987. At SNK has worked on games from Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, King of Fighters and Metal Slug series.
Career
He started his career at Irem. He worked on Moon Patrol which was the first game to have parallax scrolling.
He was the designer of Kung-Fu Master in 1984 which is considered one of the first fighting video games.
He then joined Capcom. Along with Hiroshi Matsumoto he directed the first Street Fighter game. He created the special moves for Ryu called "Hadouken", which he says was inspired by an energy missile attack from Space Battleship Yamato. He then left Capcom and did not return to work on the sequel Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.
He then joined SNK.
He is currently President of Dimps game development company.
He is sometimes credited as "Piston Takashi", "Nishiyama" or "T. Nishiyama".
Gameography
- Moon Patrol 1982 (game designer)
- Kung-Fu Master 1984 (game designer)
- Section Z 1985 (game designer)
- Trojan 1986 (game designer)
- Legendary Wings 1986 (Director)
- Avengers 1987 (Director)
- Mad Gear 1988 (game planner)
- Street Fighter 1987 (Director)
- Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012 1988 (Director)
- Ghost Pilots 1991 (executive producer)
- Fatal Fury: King of Fighters 1991 (Director)
- Mutation Nation 1992 (special thanks)
- Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf 1992 (producer)
- The King of Fighters '94 1994 (producer)
- Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory 1995 (producer)
- Real Bout Fatal Fury 1995 (producer)
- Real Bout Fatal Fury Special 1997 (producer)
- The King of Fighters '97 1997 (producer)
- The King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest 1998 (producer)
- Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage 1999 (executive producer)
- The King of Fighters '99 1999 (producer)
- Metal Slug X 2001 (producer)
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (2003) (item designer)
- Street Fighter IV (2008) (executive producer)