Credits
Executive Producer	Hayao Nakayama
Produced by	Minoru Kanari, Makoto Oshitani
Director	Naoto Ohshima (Bigisland)
Program Director	Keiichi Yamamoto
Art Director	Hiroyuki Kawaguchi
Sound Director	Yukifumi Makino
Game Designers	Hiroaki Chino (TINON), Kenichi Ono (AX), Yuichiro Yokoyama, Takao Miyoshi, Akira Noshino
Character Designer	Kazuyuki Hoshino
Landscape Designers	Hiroyuki Kawaguchi (HIRO.K), Takumi Miyake, Masahiro Sanpei, Masato Nishimura, Hideaki Kurata
Special Stage Designers	Kazuyuki Hoshino, Yasushi Yamaguchi
Special Stage Programmer	Keiichi Yamamoto
Animation Programmers	Yuichiro Mine (PROTO.2), Eiji Horita
Animation Visual Directors	Hiroyuki Kawaguchi (HIRO.K), Masahiro Sanpei
Visual Design	Kazuyuki Hoshino, Takumi Miyake
Chief Programmer	Matsuhide Mizoguchi
Programmers	Yuichi Matsuoka, Hiroshi Takei, Tatsuya Satoh (HIC), Noritaka Yakita (HIC)
Animation Staff
Producers	Yasuo Yamaguchi, Mutsumi Kido
Chief Key Animator	Hisashi Eguchi (Studio Junio)
Key Animators	Tetsuya Kumagai, Toshiyuki Komaru, Yasuyuki Shimizu, Ichiro Furuichi, Kenji Kajiwara
Art Director	Shinzō Yuki
Camera Director	Masaru Banzai
Assistant Production Manager	Kouichi Hirose
Director	Yukio Kaizawa
Production Manager	Koji Sekiguchi
In Cooperation With	Studio Junio
Produced by	Toei Animation Co. Ltd.
Music Credits for Sonic CD / North American Version
Music Composed (except where indicated)	Spencer Nilsen
Music Arranged (except where indicated)	Spencer Nilsen
Music Produced by (except where indicated)	Spencer Nilsen
Co‑Composed by	David Young
Co‑Arranged by	David Young
Vocals	Pastiche, Sandy Cressman, Jenny Meltzer, Rebecca West
Keyboards and Synthesizer Programming	Spencer Nilsen, David Young
Drums and Percussion	Brad Kaiser
Electric and Acoustic Guitars	Erik Frykman
Digitally Recorded and Mixed at	SEGA Multimedia Studio; Redwood City - CA
Engineered and Mixed by	Spencer Nilsen, David Young
Additional Music (Collission Chaos, Metallic Madness, Robotnik) Composed by	Sterling, Armando Peraza, Bobby Vega
Produced by	Sterling, Charles Albert
Guitar, Keyboards and Fairlight III programming	Sterling
Bass	Bobby Vega
Percussion by	Armando Peraza
Engineer	Charles Albert
Programming Assistant	Roosevelt Hoover
Production Coordinator	Maurice Jackson
Recorded and Mixed at	INTERMIX
Special Thanks	Everyone at SEGA of America PD/MM, Joe, Tom, Walter, Barbara, , David, Brad, Erik, Claire, QSound, Audix, Digital Support Group, Fairlight E.S.P. Propriety Limited, Opcode, Otari, Zoom, Illycafe Espresso [...for keeping us awake]
Rhythms for "Palmtree Panic" inspired by Mister E by	Pete Escovedo
Music Credits for Sonic CD / Japanese+European Version
Lyrics by (Opening Theme: "Sonic You Can Do Anything")	Casey Rankin
Music by (Opening Theme: "Sonic You Can Do Anything")	Masafumi Ogata
Vocal (Opening Theme: "Sonic You Can Do Anything")	Keiko Utoku
Lyrics by (Ending Theme: "Cosmic Eternity [Believe In Yourself"])	Casey Rankin
Music by (Ending Theme: "Cosmic Eternity [Believe In Yourself"])	Naofumi Hataya
Vocal (Ending Theme: "Cosmic Eternity [Believe In Yourself"])	Keiko Utoku
Producer	Daikou Nagato (Being Co. Ltd.)
Director	Ryo Watabe (Being Co. Ltd.)
Recorded at	Studio Birdman, Mod Studio
BGM Composer and Arranged	Naofumi Hataya, Masafumi Ogata
Sound Effect	Yukifumi Makino
Sound Program	Yukifumi Makino
Additional Staff
Promoter	Hiroyuki Tanaka
Package Designer	Youichi Takahashi, Hayato Takebayashi
Illustrations	Kazuyuki Hoshino
Special Thanks	Naofumi Hataya, Masafumi Ogata, Daikou Nagato (Being Co. Ltd.), Hiroshi Kubota, Rieko Kodama (Phenix Rie), Yoshiaki Kashima, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Masaru Setsumaru, Hijiri Aoki, Steve Ray Burton, James Michael Spahn, Kounosuke Yoshio, Tomoko Sasaki, Aki Kamata, Masato Nishimura, Akira Funada, Fujio Minegishi, Jina Ishiwatari, Katsufumi Yoshimori, Tetsuo Akagi, Kaeko Itō, Hiroshi Nakatani, Hiromi Fukuda, Etsuko Yamada, Ryoshiro Kutsuzawa, Takashi Iwade, Michikazu Tamamura, Masumi Uchida, Tohru Watanuki, Makiko Suzuki
Presented by	SEGA

Other Games

In addition to this game, the following people are listed as working on other games. No more than 25 people are listed here, even if there are more than 25 people who have also worked on other games.

Naofumi Hataya, 47 other games
Masaru Setsumaru, 46 other games
Yukifumi Makino, 43 other games
Maurice Jackson, 29 other games
Naoto Ohshima, 27 other games
Rieko Kodama, 26 other games
Yoshiaki Kashima, 23 other games
Kazuyuki Hoshino, 23 other games
Makoto Oshitani, 22 other games
Tomoko Sasaki, 20 other games
Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, 18 other games
Yasushi Yamaguchi, 16 other games
Youichi Takahashi, 16 other games
David Young, 15 other games
Keiichi Yamamoto, 13 other games
Takao Miyoshi, 13 other games
Hiroyuki Kawaguchi, 12 other games
Rebecca West, 11 other games
Tohru Watanuki, 10 other games
Michikazu Tamamura, 10 other games
Hiroshi Kubota, 9 other games
Kenichi Ono, 9 other games
Takashi Iwade, 9 other games
Hayao Nakayama, 9 other games
Jina Ishiwatari, 7 other games

Collaborations

People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games:

Sonic Adventure, a group of 13 people
Knuckles' Chaotix, a group of 12 people
Burning Rangers, a group of 11 people
Sonic the Hedgehog 2, a group of 10 people
Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams..., a group of 10 people
NiGHTS into Dreams..., a group of 9 people
Panic!, a group of 9 people
Sonic R, a group of 7 people
Sega Rally Championship, a group of 7 people
3x3 Eyes: Seima Densetsu, a group of 7 people
Shenmue, a group of 6 people
Panzer Dragoon, a group of 6 people
Astal, a group of 6 people
Ristar, a group of 6 people
Sonic the Hedgehog, a group of 5 people
Sonic 3D Blast, a group of 5 people
Virtua Racing Deluxe, a group of 5 people
Magic Knight Rayearth, a group of 5 people
Sonic Adventure 2, a group of 5 people
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, a group of 5 people
Yakuza 4, a group of 4 people
Yakuza 3, a group of 4 people
Panzer Dragoon Orta, a group of 4 people
Sonic Jam, a group of 4 people
Daytona USA, a group of 4 people