Yoshinori Sasaki
aka:
Y. Sasaki,
Moai Sasaki,
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Moby ID: 81466
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Yoshinori Sasaki was a sound and music creator, and later programmer, at Konami. He was affectionately known and credited as "Moai Sasaki" in some Konami games.
Being active since 1984 makes him one of the oldest composers among the many members of the Konami Square Wave Club.
He was in charge of arcade titles from Konami's early days, such as "Road Fighter" and "Twinbee". He later worked on MSX titles such as "Penguin Adventure" and "Phoenix Chronicles: Gaou's Adventure".
He is also famous as the model for the famous 'Moai' character in the Gradius series. This is because Mr Sasaki's appearance resembled a Moai, which is also the reason for his nickname "Moai Sasaki".
In the 1990s, he switched jobs from sound creator to programmer. His first job as a programmer was on the Sharp X68000 port of "Vulcan Venture" ("Gradius II"). Despite being a programming novice, he became the leader of the development team. Sasaki says that even when he was in charge of music, he was also involved in sound programming, so even though he was new to programming, he understood the basics of programming.
He also worked as a programmer on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist", ("T.M.N.T. Return of the Shredder") and the Mega Drive version of "Lethal Enforcers".
Credited on 31 games
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| Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015, PlayStation 4) | Programmers |
| Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Episode One: Penal Colony (2015, Windows) | Programmers |
| Resident Evil (2015, Windows) | Programmers |
| Resident Evil: Revelations (2013, Windows) | Programmers |
| Dungeon Explorer: Warriors of Ancient Arts (2008, Nintendo DS) | Special Thanks to |
| S.L.A.I.: Steel Lancer Arena International (2005, PlayStation 2) | Producer |
| Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim (2005, PlayStation 2) | Producer |
| pop'n music 7 (2002, PlayStation 2) | Producer |
| pop'n music 6 (2002, PlayStation) | Producer |
| JGTO KΕnin Golf Master: Japan Golf Tour Game (2001, Game Boy Advance) | Executive Producer |
| The Mummy (2000, Game Boy Color) | Executive Producer |
| Cyborg Kuro-chan: Devil Fukkatsu!! (2000, Game Boy Color) | Executive Producer (γγγγγγγγ) |
| The Grinch (2000, Game Boy Color) | Executive Producer |
| Big Ol' Bass 2 (2000, PlayStation) | Executive Producer |
| Battle Tryst (1998, Arcade) | Special Thanks! |
| Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You (1995, PlayStation) | Publicity Planning (εΊε ±γ»δΌη») |
| Snatcher (1994, SEGA CD) | Director |
| Illusion of Gaia (1993, SNES) | Special Thanks to |
| Lethal Enforcers (1993, Genesis) | Programmers |
| Vulcan Venture (1992, Sharp X68000) | Game Programmer |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 5 games with Kazumi Kitaue
- 5 games with Motoaki Furukawa
- 5 games with Jiro Nemoto
- 4 games with Mayumi Hasegawa
- 4 games with Shigenobu Komori
- 4 games with Masako Yokota
- 4 games with Miguel E. Corti
- 4 games with Hitoshi Mishima
- 4 games with Mark Reichwein
- 4 games with Takahiro Ushiroda
Companies
- 24 games with Konami Corporation
- 11 games with Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
- 5 games with Konami Computer...
- 4 games with Capcom Co., Ltd.
- 4 games with Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH
- 4 games with Roppongi Monitoring Centre Inc
- 3 games with Valve Corporation
- 2 games with Hudson Soft Company, Ltd.
- 2 games with Tose Co., Ltd.
- 2 games with Storyriders Co., Ltd.
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