Takashi Nishiyama

Takashi Nishiyama, sometimes credited as Piston Takashi, Nishiyama or T. Nishiyama, is a Japanese video game designer, director and producer, who worked for Irem, Capcom and SNK, before founding his own company Dimps. He started his career at Irem, where he developed early arcade games such as the 1982 scrolling shooter Moon Patrol and the 1984 beat 'em up Kung-Fu Master. At Capcom, he created the Street Fighter fighting game franchise in 1987. He then worked at SNK, where he created the Fatal Fury fighting game franchise and worked on Art of Fighting and King of Fighters, as well as the run & gun shooter series Metal Slug.