Frame Zero: IGN interview, dated May 30th, 2001. So full of light and laughter. This man knows only of monkeys and balls.

Frame One: F-Zero GX-era Nagoshi.

Frame Two: Got-Next interview, dated December 21, 2004. The endarkening has begun.

Frame Three: The Kikizo interview, dated October 31st, 2005. Chin scruff awakes, as does the knowledge of the hard-boiled road ahead in his eyes.

Frame Four: Nagoshi's own 1up page displays this presumably self-selected picture, documenting his aim to become Sega's first game-producing hybrid of Ursula Andress and Grace Jones.

Frame Five: Finally, a picture taken by Kotaku's own Mike "Michael" McWhertor, highlighting Nagoshi's complete transformation into a yakuza-inspired "method" game producer. We've slather the contents of an entire case of indelible markers over our body in tribute. Joel Johnson

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