, also known as Judy Totoya is a game designer and artist. He designed the character

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in an internal contest hosted by

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. He originally named the character "Miles Prower", however

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wanted to call the character "Tails". SEGA and Yamaguchi reached a compromise on his name, with "Miles Prower" being the character's full legal name and "Tails" being his nickname. His main work was that of both creating and designing Tails as well as being the Chief Artist and one of the Zone artists in ''

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''. He also worked as the Special Stage Designer in ''

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'' and on other Sega related games.

Production history

* ''

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'' (1988) — Designer * ''

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'' (1989) — Mechanical Design * '' Last Battle'' (1989) — Special Designer under the name ''Judy Totoya'' * ''

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'' (1990) - Graphic Designer for the Mega Drive version under the name ''Judy Totoya'' * '' Advanced Daisenryaku'' (1991) - Unit Design - Land Unit for the Mega Drive version under the name ''Judy★Totoya'' * ''

'' (1992) — Character Design, Chief Artist, Zone Artist * ''

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'' (1992) — Art * '' Sonic the Hedgehog CD'' (1993) — Special Stage Designer * ''

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'' (1995) — Art Director * ''

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'' (1998) — Character Design

References

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