Seiichi Ishii
Seiichi Ishii (石井 精一 Ishii Seiichi, born August 18, 1967) is a Japanese game designer. He is most well known for the development of fighting games.
Ishii was born in Ichinomiya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He was a designer on groundbreaking Sega titles Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter. Ishii was also a designer and director for the first Tekken game in 1994. He established his own company, DreamFactory Co., Ltd. in November 1995, through Sega Enterprises Ltd. and Namco Ltd., expanding his fighting game pedigree to create titles such as Tobal No. 1, Ehrgeiz, and The Bouncer.
Published works
- Virtua Racing (October 1992; Arcade Version) (main designer)
- Virtua Fighter (December 1993; Arcade Version) (coordinator & main designer)
- Tekken (December 1994; Arcade Version) (director & main designer)
- Tekken (March 31, 1995; PlayStation Version) (director & main designer)
- Tekken 2 (August 1995; Arcade Version) (director & main designer)
- Tobal No. 1 (August 2, 1996) (director, game design)
- Tobal 2 (April 25, 1997) (director & game design)
- Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring (February 26, 1998; Arcade Version) (director & game designer)
- Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring (December 17, 1998; PlayStation Version) (director & game designer)
- The Bouncer (December 23, 2000) (original story, game director)
- Kakuto Chojin: Back Alley Brutal (November 11, 2002) (development producer, game designer)
- Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (March 20, 2003) (producer)
- Crimson Tears (April 22, 2004) (scenario creation, supervising editor)
- Arc the Lad: End of Darkness (November 3, 2004) (producer)