Hideki Sato

Hideki Sato
Place of birth: Hokkaido, Japan
Date of birth: 1950-11-05
Date of death: 2026-02-13 (age 75)
Employment history: Sega Enterprises Sega
Role(s): Executive, Engineer
Education: Tokyo Metropolitan Technical College

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Hideki Sato (佐藤 秀樹) designed many Sega consoles and served as president from 2001 to 2003. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Technical College, He joined Sega in April 1971, involving himself with arcade hardware. Sato and his team are credited for creating the majority of Sega consumer console hardware - the SG-1000, Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast.

In 2008, he and with others established a company called Advance Create, Inc.

Production history

• Monaco GP (Discrete logic arcade; 1979) — Unknown role
• Turbo (VCO Object; 1981) — Hardware Design
• Star Jacker (System 1; 1983) — Hard Work By
• Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Windows PC; 1996)
  • Senior Executive Director (as Hideki Satou)
  • Senior Executive Producer (as Hideki Satou)
• NetLink Custom Web Browser (Saturn; 1996)
  • Laitteistotutkimuksen ja suunnittelun johtaja
  • Managing Director Hardware R&D
• Sega Saturn Internet Vol. 1 (Saturn; 1996) — Japanese credit: （株）セガ・エンタープライゼス (as 佐藤 秀樹)
• Burning Rangers (Saturn; 1998) — Executive Management
• Dream Passport (Dreamcast; 1998) — Japanese credit: エグゼクティブプロデューサー (as 佐藤 秀樹)
• Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Executive management
• Dream Passport 2 (Dreamcast; 1999) — Japanese credit: エグゼクティブプロデューサー (as 佐藤 秀樹)
• Dreamkey (Dreamcast; 1999) — Executive Producer (as Satou Hideki)
• ChuChu Rocket! (Dreamcast; 1999) — Exective Producers
• Dreamcast Middleware Conference Demo Disc Part. 2 (Dreamcast; 1999) — Executive Adviser (as Sato Hideaki)
• Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast; 2000) — Executive Management
• Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Executive Management
• Sonic Adventure 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Executive Management
• Puyo Pop (Game Boy Advance; 2001) — Executive Producer (as Hideki Satou)
• Sonic Advance (Game Boy Advance; 2001) — Executive Producer
• Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (GameCube; 2001) — Executive Management
• Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II (GameCube, 2002; Xbox, 2003) — Executive Management
• Sonic Mega Collection (GameCube; 2002)
  • Executive Producer
  • Japanese credit: エグザクティブプロデューサー (as 佐藤 秀樹)
• Sonic Advance 2 (Game Boy Advance; 2002) — Executive Producer
• Sonic Pinball Party (Game Boy Advance; 2003) — Executive Producer
• Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (GameCube; 2003) — Executive Producer

Hardware

• Sega System 1 (Arcade; 1982) — Unknown role
• SC-3000 (SC-3000; 1983) — Designer
• SG-1000 (SG-1000; 1983) — Unknown role
• SG-1000 II (SG-1000; 1984) — Unknown role
• Sega Mark III (Master System; 1985) — Unknown role
• Sega Mega Drive (Mega Drive; 1988) — Unknown role
• Sega Saturn (Saturn; 1994) — Unknown role
• Sega Dreamcast (Dreamcast; 1998) — Unknown role (also credited as Hideki Satou)

Photographs

Main article: Photos of Hideki Sato

Magazine articles

Main article: Hideki Sato/Magazine articles.

External links

• Sega Stars: Hideki Sato article by Ken Horowitz at Sega-16
• Press Release (Japanese)