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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.
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Takashi Nishiyama (西山 隆志, Nishiyama Takashi) is a Japanese game director, producer, and video game designer. He is credited as the creator of the Fatal Fury series and the Art of Fighting series. After SNK, Nishiyama founded Dimps with former SNK staff.
Before his career at Capcom, he worked with Irem on Spartan X, better known in the West as Kung Fu Master. He joined SNK in 1988 after he had finished directing the first Street Fighter game with Hiroshi Matsumoto.
Leaving SNK due to feeling the need to take responsibility for the coming dire situation at the time, he went on to found Dimps in 2000 when core staff of SNK also resigned after him, expecting Nishiyama to have some sort of plan. With the help of key people from Sammy (now Sega Sammy), Bandai Namco Games and CSK, he started Sokiac which was later renamed Dimps.
•Ghost Pilots - executive director
•Neo Turf Masters - "boss"; executive director
•The Ultimate 11 - SNK Football Championship - executive producer
•Fatal Fury - (III~Real Bout 2: producer)
•Art of Fighting 3 - producer
•The King of Fighters series ('94~'99: producer)
•Legendary Wings (1988, NES) - Director
•Last Duel (1988) - Director
•Demolish Fist (2003) - Executive producer
•The Rumble Fish (2004) - Executive producer
•Street Fighter IV (2009) - Executive producer
•Super Street Fighter IV (2010) - Executive producer
•Takashi Nishiyama at Wikipedia
•Takashi Nishiyama at TV Tropes
•Profile at IMDb
•Profile at MobyGames
•Archived interview with 1Up from the original on 2012-01-03
•Takashi Nishiyama's corporate message at Dimps website
Jul 2, 2017 · But in truth, Street Fighter creator Takashi Nishiyama, now president of Dimps (the contractor that created Street Fighter 4), was influenced by science fiction rather than martial arts when he...
Dec 26, 2023 · Released in 1987 by Capcom, Street Fighter is an arcade game directed by Takashi Nishiyama, who had pretty much invented the beat-em-up genre with Kung Fu Master. For his next game, he wanted...
Profession: Video Game Designer. Nationality: Japanese. Biography: Takashi Nishiyama created a number of highly influential game series, including Street Fighter and The King of Fighters, which shaped the fighting game genre. Nishiyama began his career at Irem, a video game company.
Jul 7, 2020 · Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto stand in front of Street Fighter’s Ryu and Ken — characters they named after themselves.
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Jan 7, 2021 · Learn how Street Fighter director Takashi Nishiyama left Capcom for SNK and spearheaded the crossover series that revived the fighting game genre. Read interviews with developers, producers, and artists who worked on the Capcom vs. SNK games.
