Chikao Ohtsuka was a long-time voice actor in the gaming world, but is best known for his work as the Japanese voice actor for Dr. Eggman in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise from Sonic Adventure ...

The Origin Of The Name Eggman In the original Japanese release of Sonic the Hedgehog, the name of the evil scientist who uses cute animals as a power source is Eggman.

Many of these altered names come from localizing Japanese titles into English, others happen for plot purposes, and some are due to technical limitations. ... Sonic's Dr. Robotnik became Eggman.

UK’s Sonic The Comic featured Eggman with his original Japanese design for the first handful of issues before he underwent a bizarre metamorphosis into Knight’s Robotnik.

I am the Eggman In 1990, Sega was on the ropes after the messy launch of the Mega Drive. The console would be rebranded as the Sega Genesis in the US, but it needed more than that to take off.

The rest of the trailer appears to just be previously revealed footage, but with a Japanese voiceover. We do get a new Japanese poster to show us another look at baby Sonic, though.

— Dr. Eggman (@sonic_hedgehog) November 13, 2015 Archie Comics, which publishes the long-running Sonic the Hedgehog comic series, also got a personal message from the egg-headed villain.