the RGG Studio legacy
an ode to and light history of sega's most talented developers
42 Games
the game that took Toshihiro Nagoshi (original yakuza supervisor and creator) from Yu Suzuki protege to top creative force at sega
the start of team andromeda, a young but talented group of sega developers working in the console space.
many notable smilebit and later RGG devs got their start here, including JSR director and yakuza producer Masayoshi Kikuchi, yakuza 5 and 0 director Hiroyuki Sakamoto, and JSR graphics designer and ps2 yakuza director Ryuta Ueda
yakuza series producer Daisuke Sato's first collaboration with Nagoshi
the final game before the collapse of team andromeda upon director Yukio Futatsugi's exit. followed by the formation of Smilebit
sole game created by AM11, a short-lived team helmed by Nagoshi that led to the creation of Amusement Vision. early 3D brawler that the team would draw on for Yakuza
while Yu Suzuki and AM2 produced the majority of the game, Nagoshi was brought in within the final 6 months to provide additional direction. other AV/RGG staff assisted him on this endeavor
this and Planet Harriers were arcade games with heavy involvement from staff behind later relevant AV titles such as monkey ball and f-zero GX
first game for Smilebit, specifically the creative team derived from PDS. features a similar 3d recreation of urban japan
originally an arcade game produced by new dev studio Amusement Vision and helmed by Nagoshi.
direct follow-up to the original JSR
technically auxillary but did feature some main staff that would migrate over to RGG in the future. developed near simultaneously with JSRF and gunvalkyrie, the latter of which also had minor contributions from the JSR core team (though it was mainly led by staff who had worked on JP-only RTS Hundred Swords and the infamous Sega Rally 2 ports)
alongside F-Zero AX, which featured identical staff.
arcade game developed by much of the JSR team. those who worked on this seem to have had some advisory oversight on the later Sonic Riders game
first game after sega corporate restructuring led to New Entertainment R&D, which was functionally a merger of AV staff with non-sports Smilebit staff
not a great game, but as far as I'm aware actually had a significant amount of original staff working on it (those who weren't busy with yakuza anyway)
this seems to be the first game developed as Sega CS1, which is the technical overseeing studio that houses RGG. directly descended from New Entertainment, and seems to technically still operate (though their non-RGG sports team seems to not be very active anymroe)
can't find credits for this one but this and the sequel were primarily developed by syn Sophia as far as I'm aware
first game to use RGG Studios branding
side-project to train newer RGG staffers who weren't ready for dragon engine
AM2 handled the majority of this iirc but ported using RGG's dragon engine with supervision from their staff
very odd that it doesn't have RGG branding on the package? unless I'm mistaken
4 Comments
literally can't think of a better word than untouchable, bangers front to back (except for banana blitz)
was aware of spikeout in this lineage (and am intending to play it soon) but had no idea slashout existed at all, ty 🙌
@kingbancho for sure! I'm pretty sure both that and planet harriers are playable via demul... the latter with graphical bugs i would imagine, since hikaru emulation is rough
DJSCheddar
2 years ago