Sega AM2 is a research and development team for the video game company Sega. It was previously headed up by famed designer Yu Suzuki. Of Sega's AM teams, AM2 was the best known and would become a major development house for Sega, first creating the late-eighties classics After Burner II, Out Run, and Space Harrier, all of which were monster successes. Later AM2 would go on to create the Virtua Fighter and Shenmue series as well. They have recently given the Out Run franchise its latest chapter, OutRun 2. A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... This article is about the video game company. ... Yu Suzuki (鈴木裕, born May 10, 1958) is Segas leading video game producer. ... Space Harrier is a forward scrolling shooter game, released by Sega in 1985. ... Virtua Fighter is a 1993 fighter arcade game developed by the Sega studio AM2, headed by Yu Suzuki. ... Shenmue (莎木 or シェンムー) (2000) is a revolutionary story-based action/RPG video game for the Sega Dreamcast, directed and written by Yu Suzuki of Sega AM2. ...
Sega Amusement Machine Research and Development Department 2 (popularly known as SegaAM2 or simply AM2) is a research and development team for the video game company Sega.
Originally known as "Sega Amusement Developing Section 8," AM2 was previously headed up by famed designer Yu Suzuki.
Of Sega's AM teams, AM2 was the best known and would become a major development house for Sega, first creating the late-eighties classics After Burner II, Out Run, and Space Harrier, all of which were monster successes.