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Takashi Nishiyama (Japanese: 西山隆志), sometimes credited as "Piston" Takashi Nishiyama or T. Nishiyama, is a Japanese video game designer, director and producer who worked for Irem, Capcom and SNK before founding his own company Dimps. He is best known for developing the scrolling shooter title Moon Patrol, the beat 'em up title Kung-Fu Master, and the fighting game titles Street Fighter, Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters. He also helped to develop the Neo Geo system.
TakashiNishiyama (Japanese: 西山隆志), sometimes credited as "Piston" TakashiNishiyama or T. Nishiyama, is a Japanese video game designer, director and producer...
Fighting and The King of Fighters co-creator TakashiNishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto. In 2000, TakashiNishiyama resigned from SNK, and was soon approached...
becoming the standard for the genre. Irem's Kung-Fu Master, designed by TakashiNishiyama and released in November 1984, was a side-scrolling beat 'em up that...
Soin Nishiyama, Tokugawa-era poet Taiga Nishiyama (西山 大雅, born 1999), Japanese footballer Takahisa Nishiyama, Japanese soccer player TakashiNishiyama, Japanese...
development groups referred to as "Planning Rooms", led by Tokuro Fujiwara, TakashiNishiyama and Yoshiki Okamoto. Later, games developed internally were created...
scrolling landscape as well as shoot aerial attackers. Designed by TakashiNishiyama, Moon Patrol is often credited with the introduction of full parallax...
Street Fighter (1987), for which developers Hiroshi Matsumoto and TakashiNishiyama created a concept for a Caucasian man wearing a leather jacket; the...
from Capcom's Street Fighter series of fighting games. Game designer TakashiNishiyama credits an energy attack called Hadouho (lit. the "Wave Motion Gun")...
highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Street Fighter, designed by TakashiNishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto, debuted in arcades in 1987. The player controls...
remaining in the game because staff members—most notably producer TakashiNishiyama—left the company before the game was complete. SNK attempted to add...
designer TakashiNishiyama was a fan of his. The character originates from the kung fu series Karate Master by Ikki Kajiwara. As a child, Nishiyama enjoyed...
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