Юсукэ Судзуки: Япон ойын дизайнінің шебері

Japanese video game designer

Yu Suzuki (鈴木 裕) is a Japanese game designer, producer, programmer, and engineer, who headed Sega's AM2 team for 18 years. Considered one of the first auteurs of video games, he has been responsible for a number of Sega's arcade hits, including three dimensional sprite scaling games that used "taikan" motion simulator arcade cabinets, such as Hang On, Space Harrier, Out Run and After Burner, and pioneering polygonal 3D games such as Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter, as well as the critically acclaimed Shenmue series.

Suzuki joined Sega in 1983 as a programmer. In his first year, he created a 2D boxing game called Champion Boxing for Sega's first home game console, the SG 1000. According to Suzuki, the executive staff at Sega found the game so impressive that they released it in arcades as is by simply installing an SG 1000 into an arcade cabinet. Suzuki's Shenmue for the Dreamcast gave rise to a new style of adventure games, bending it away from the typical mold most games of its nature seem to fit into, with Suzuki's own concept denoted as "FREE" ("Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment"). Shenmue was the most expensive game to be developed until Grand Theft Auto IV in 2008, with the whole project costing US$70 million,

In the fall of 2010, Suzuki returned with Shenmue City, developed by Sunsoft and Ys Net (Yu Suzuki's new studio) for Yahoo Games. On February 27, 2016, Suzuki appeared as a guest presenter at the annual Monaco Anime Games International Conferences (MAGIC), where he showed images and video clips of the development progress for Shenmue III to conference attendees. On June 22nd 2022, YS Net released Air Twister exclusively to Apple Arcade. YS Net has continued to support the game with regular updates and expanded content.

Suzuki said in an interview that while he greatly enjoys creating games, he has relatively little interest in playing them and prefers to spend his free time watching movies and visiting theme parks.