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The Man behind Resident Evil.
Shinji Mikami is one of the oldest and most well known video game producers, perhaps best known for the creation of Resident Evil. He also made God Hand, and helped create Clover Studios with the help of Hideki Kamiya (Of Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Okami and Bayonetta fame) and Atsushi Inaba (Who helped out on a bunch of other works, and helped out with MadWorld), now known as Platinum Games. Originally a Capcom member (one of the oldest, actually), he then went to SEGA with the rest of his fellow Clover members at Platinum Games. He completed Vanquish and worked with Suda 51 and Akira Yamaoka on a comedy-horror game titled Shadows of the Damned.
In 2010 he founded Tango Gameworks, a subsidiary of Zenimax Media (the same parent company as Id Software and Bethesda) along with longtime Suda 51 collaborator Masafumi Takada
His official English-language twitter is here while his company's twitter is here
He has worked on the following:
- Resident Evil series
- Resident Evil (directed both, the original PS version and the GC remake)
- Resident Evil 2
- Resident Evil 3 Nemesis
- Resident Evil Code Veronica
- Resident Evil 0
- Resident Evil Outbreak
- Resident Evil 4 (director)
- Dino Crisis series
- Ace Attorney series
- P.N.03
- Viewtiful Joe
- God Hand
- Vanquish
- Shadows of the Damned
Other involvement:
His works frequently contain examples of the following:
- Self-Deprecation / Black Comedy: If these comics were written by him
- Zombie Apocalypse: To the point where his company's comics and artwork frequently portray the staff members as zombies