Ryoichi Hasegawa (SEGA of Japan & Sony Producer) Interview

Ryoichi Hasegawa is a true SEGA legend. He helped produce some classic titles including NiGHTS into Dreams, Crazy Taxi, Streets of Rage 3, Burning Rangers, Ecco the Dolphin and Sonic Jam. He also worked on other classic titles such as Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Jak and Daxter and The Last of Us for Sony. Stories include his work on Streets of Rage 3 and why it was so much harder for US gamers, his showdown with Nintendo when bringing Mario and Sonic to the Olympics and the true lowdown on how SEGA of Japan and SEGA of America got along during the 90s! The podcast is now WEEKLY - help us keep going by becoming a Patreon of ours for only $4/£3 per month. Find out more at: We've plenty of retro gaming video content (if that's your thang) at: For our back catalogue of podcasts, blogs, reviews and written interviews please check our website at: And for all our links including social media and merchandise, please check out our linktree page: All copyrighted material contained within this podcast is the property of their respective rights owners and their use here is protected under ‘fair use’ for the purposes of comment or critique.

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Ryoichi Hasegawa (SEGA of Japan & Sony Producer) Interview is an episode from Arcade Attack Retro Gaming Podcast by Arcade Attack.

This episode is 80:37 long.

This episode was published on Jan 13, 2026.

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