sega technical institute

[Johnny]

Can you guys help me compile a list of games this team has developed? So far I've got the following.

Sonic 2
Sonic 3
Sonic & Knuckles
Sonic Spinball
Kid Chameleon
Dick Tracy
The Ooze
Comix Zone

Also, in what form does the team exist today? I know Mark Cerny left to work on stuff like Crash and Spyro years ago. Didn't STI have a hand in Sonic Adventure LE?



[edit: building up the list]

[Sqoon]

Didn't STI disband and the name dissolve after the Sonic Xtreme disaster?

[Regus]

I can't really add anything to this thread, except:

Test, one, two.... SEGA!

[Punky Skunk]

Clear this up for me. How are Sonic 2 blah blah etc. "developed" by Sega Technical Institute? I was only aware of Comix Zone, because that's the only game I've seen that has their name slapped on it, and well, I thought it went without saying that the Sonic games were developed by... Sonic Team?

[Regus]

Hmmm, it seems that they've also created

The Ooze:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Dick Tracy:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8


And they also had a hand in creating the NiGHTS Analog contoller for the Saturn:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Regus]

Originally posted by Rob
Clear this up for me. How are Sonic 2 blah blah etc. "developed" by Sega Technical Institute?

It appears to have been a joint effort between STI and Sonic Team:

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Johnny]

I wonder how many former STI members now work for Sonic Team USA. I know Takashi Iizuka had his hands in both Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles.

[sggg]

Here are a few links to interviews with former STI members, at the Sonic Database website:

¤ http://www.geocities.com/sonicdataba.../mailpeter.htm

¤ http://www.geocities.com/sonicdataba.../mailcraig.htm

These interviews should shed a lot of light into the STI/Sonic situation. They're very interesting.

[Johnny]

One bit of trivia for Spinball. It was the last day. We were all sitting around eating at the 'wrap party' when the Japanese came in from working on Sonic 3. Yasahara, while watching the opening sequence of Spinball, made an off-hand remark asking how we talked Sega into paying for the rights to the orginal Sonic Theme. We all looked at him very strangely since we didn't have a clue what he was talking about. It turns out that the group that did the orginal Sonic theme still owned the rights to the music.
In the intrerm between Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 this band had become quite famous in Japan. When Sega approached them to use the music again in Sonic 2, they asked for a lot of money.

Well, no one had told us about this and we had used the orginal music. Howard, our music guy, quickly ran to his little room and started writting a new piece of music. At about midnight that night we released a NEW gold master version of the game, this time with our own original theme song. (which was released in limited quantity on CD)

Haha, that's great.

[Sqoon]

Oh, so STI (or at least a portion of it) became Luxoflux. Question answered.