His youngin' days, as a president of HitMaker as a game developer, making and promoting hip summer blue games such as Virtua Tennis and Crazy Taxi
Now, a middle-aged executive of a big conglomerate, now getting into casino machines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zFy3YjFIds
He joined Sega about the same time as Yuji Naka and Yu Suzuki, in 1984. Yu Suzuki was a designer, Yuji Naka was a programmer, Oguchi was a planner.
This now huge business guy made once this very cute game when he joined the company: Doki Doki Penguin Land.His department AM3 was known for a lot of classic Sega games - almost as much as AM2 really.But why did he get such a high business position at Sega, and Sega Sammy as a whole? Why didn't Yu Suzuki for example? Well, I think his heart lied more into the gambling/novelty type of arcades, and probably made more money than AM2. Plus his department came up with the card game genre, big money maker.
Lookie here, some of the games he made through the 90's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhoVXmfB4cghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjKTSsg9fewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qVXhE8eRFkAlso an interview during the Dreamcast era.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2He comes off as casual and cool, suggesting what locations should be featured in the new Crazy Taxi, and ambitious plans of online gaming on consoles.
Seems as tough the console plans kinda dissapeared...
My theory:
Sammy boss, Hajime Satomi talked to him in 2003, and pretty much convinced him that they should focus on Japan and the arcades rather than the console business in the west.
I remember also him talking in an interview when he was president, about the overseas market, and him pretty much saying that local games need to be made by local developers...hmmm...
Well he did join Sega as a planner, so maybe his current days of managing big companies were inevitable.
