Ancient (company)

The company was founded when Yuzo, who had worked on the sound for The Super Shinobi, received an inquiry from Sega asking if he could create the entire game. Yuzo was told that taking on the entire game would require a company-wide deal, so he founded the company. Initially, he invited Shinobu Hayashi, an acquaintance from a doujin PC software circle (who later worked on the development of Decathreat at Sega and joined Zenaworks after leaving Sega), to work as a programmer, and formed the company with Ayano, who was in charge of graphics, and four high school classmates. The company was run as a cottage industry (the company's representative was the mother of the Koshiro siblings). The Game Gear version (known overseas as the Master System version) of Sonic the Hedgehog that they developed became a huge hit, and the profits were used to build the company's headquarters.^[4]