Beep! MegaDrive, Sonic Team interview (1991)

Cite as: Beep! MegaDrive, Sonic Team interview (1991)
Original: https://archive.org/details/beep-megadrive-1991-07
sha256: a9d544b3a3520382a34493ffaae9242a9584c8be6ffcbdd3d33e79bd03065178
Archived: https://archive.org/download/beep-megadrive-1991-07/BeepMD_JP_1991-07_text.pdf
Accessed: 2026-10-26
Licence: © SoftBank; scan hosted by the Internet Archive
Credit: Beep! MegaDrive editorial team; the interviewees answer under the handles "キャロル" (Carol, the planner) and "BIGISLAND" (the character designer), the handles the game's credits give as Carol Yas (game plan) and BigIsland (character design)
Notes: Japanese. The interview runs in columns beside the issue's Sonic feature, on PDF pp. 64-66 of the scan (printed pp. 62-64); the same file as beep-megadrive-1991-07, which cites the feature's editorial text. The PDF's text layer is OCR with a space between most characters and the columns interleaved, so a quote that crosses a column break doesn't match as one run. The translations are the atlas's.

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In a July 1991 interview the game's planner, credited as Carol, said the game has six zones of three stages, well over 100 gimmicks, and was meant to feel like playing in a big amusement park without making the player worry much.	`PDF p. 66, CarolPDF p. 66, Carol`	Interview
Carol said in the same interview that the work began as making a character that could stand up to Mario.	`PDF p. 64, CarolPDF p. 64, Carol`	Interview
The character designer, credited as BigIsland, said in the interview that Sonic began as only the idea of a sense of speed, and that the spinning attack and the pinball-like movement came later; Carol added that being easy for anyone to play mattered most.	`PDF p. 64, BIGISLANDPDF p. 64, Carol`	Interview