Talk:Takashi Nishiyama

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 creating Street Fighter and Fatal Fury.

Career
After Takashi Nishiyama joined Capcom, he created the Street Fighter fighting game franchise. Along with Hiroshi Matsumoto, he directed the original Street Fighter (1987). He created the special moves for Ryu called "Hadouken", which he says was inspired by an energy missile attack from the 1970s anime series Space Battleship Yamato. He then left Capcom and did not return to work on the sequel Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.

Nishiyama then joined SNK, after they had invited him to join the company. His first project there was the Neo Geo system, which he helped develop; he proposed the initial concept of an arcade system that uses ROM cartridges like a game console, and also proposed a home console version of the system. His reasons for these proposals was to make the system cheaper for markets such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Central America, and South America, where it was difficult to sell dedicated arcade games due to piracy. Nishiyama then created the Fatal Fury fighting game franchise, as a spiritual successor to the original Street Fighter. He then left SNK and founded the game development company Dimps in 2000.

Games

 * Street Fighter (1987) (director)
 * Fatal Fury: King of Fighters (1991) (director)
 * Fatal Fury 2 (1992) (director)
 * Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory (1995) (producer)
 * Real Bout Fatal Fury (1995) (producer)
 * Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (1997) (producer)
 * Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers (1998) (executive producer)