History Creator / ShinjiMikami

* DisownedAdaptation: He quit Capcom after they ported ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' for the [=PS2=] without his permission, wanting it to be a UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube exclusive.[[note]](Don't let the fact that a "Shinji Mikami" is credited as a designer on ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' fool you; it's just someone with the same name)[[/note]]

Shinji Mikami (born August 11, 1965) is one of the oldest and most well known video game producers, perhaps best known for the creation of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. He also made ''VideoGame/GodHand'', and helped create Creator/CloverStudio with the help of Creator/HidekiKamiya (of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'', ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' fame) and Atsushi Inaba (who helped out on a bunch of other works, and helped out with ''VideoGame/MadWorld''), now known as Creator/PlatinumGames. Originally a Creator/{{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 ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'' and worked with Creator/Suda51 and Music/AkiraYamaoka on a comedy-horror game titled ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned''.

In 2010 he founded [[http://tangogameworks.com/ Tango Gameworks,]] a subsidiary of Zenimax Media (the same parent company as Creator/IdSoftware and Creator/{{Bethesda}}) along with longtime Creator/Suda51 collaborator Music/MasafumiTakada. He would eventually depart the company in 2023.

!! List of game titles Mikami has worked on as director or producer:

* ''{{VideoGame/Aladdin|Capcom}}'' (SNES version)

!! His works frequently contain examples of the following:

** He loathes being called the father of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', a title he feels more accurately belongs to Tokuro Fujiwara, the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 first game's]] producer.

* DisownedAdaptation: He quit Capcom after they ported ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' for the [=PS2=] without his permission, wanting it to be UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube exclusive.[[note]](Don't let the fact that a "Shinji Mikami" is credited as a designer on VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 fool you; it's just someone with the same name)[[/note]]

In 2010 he founded [[http://tangogameworks.com/ Tango Gameworks,]] a subsidiary of Zenimax Media (the same parent company as Creator/IdSoftware and Creator/{{Bethesda}}) along with longtime Creator/Suda51 collaborator Music/MasafumiTakada.

* DisownedAdaptation: He quit Capcom after they ported ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' for the [=PS2=] without his permission, wanting it to be UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube exclusive.[[note]](Don't let the fact that a "Shinji Mikami" is credited as a designer on VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 fool you; it's just [[NamesTheSame someone with the same name]])[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' (executive producer)

In 2010 he founded [[http://tangogameworks.com/ Tango Gameworks]], a subsidiary of Zenimax Media (the same parent company as Creator/IdSoftware and Creator/{{Bethesda}}) along with longtime Creator/Suda51 collaborator Music/MasafumiTakada.

His official English-language twitter is [[http://twitter.com/#!/shinji_mikami_e here]] while his company's twitter is [[http://twitter.com/#!/tango_gw_en here]]

* ''VideoGame/GhostWireTokyo'' (producer)

In 2010 he founded [[http://tangogameworks.com/ Tango Gameworks]], a subsidiary of Zenimax Media (the same parent company as Creator/{{idSoftware}} and Creator/{{Bethesda}}) along with longtime Creator/Suda51 collaborator Music/MasafumiTakada.

* ''Videogame/{{PN03}}'' (director)

* ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'' (executive producer, also co-wrote the story with Creator/Suda51)

* SelfDeprecation / BlackComedy: If [[http://tangogameworks.com/others/comic/001 these comics]] were written by him

* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' (SNES version)

Shinji Mikami (born August 11, 1965) is one of the oldest and most well known video game producers, perhaps best known for the creation of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. He also made ''VideoGame/GodHand'', and helped create Creator/CloverStudio with the help of Creator/HidekiKamiya (of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'', ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' fame) and Atsushi Inaba (Who helped out on a bunch of other works, and helped out with ''VideoGame/MadWorld''), now known as Creator/PlatinumGames. Originally a Creator/{{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 ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'' and worked with Creator/Suda51 and Music/AkiraYamaoka on a comedy-horror game titled ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned''.

* ''VideoGame/GhostWireTokyo'' (director)

* ''VideoGame/GhostwireTokyo'' (director)

In 2010 he founded [[http://tangogameworks.com/ Tango Gameworks]], a subsidiary of Zenimax Media (the same parent company as Creator/{{idSoftware}} and Creator/{{Bethesda}}) along with longtime Creator/Suda51 collaborator Creator/MasafumiTakada.

** While he has an overall positive opinion of his ''Aladdin'' game, he admitted years later that he though [[VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames the Virgin Games]] was a superior game to his own in every way, outside of the soundtrack.

* CreatorBacklash: [[http://tangogameworks.com/others/comic/001 This comic]] states that he "Loathes being called the father of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''."
* DisownedAdaptation: He quit Capcom after they ported ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' for the [=PS2=] without his permission, wanting it to be UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube exclusive. Doesn't seem to have stopped him from working on ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'', where he's a level designer.
** Actually, contrary to popular belief, the Shinji Mikami that was a level designer for Resident Evil 6 and Revelations 2 is [[NamesTheSame a completely different]] Shinji Mikami.