DaSorcerer7
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Rumour: Game company kidnapped dev's sister to stop them from working with Nintendo
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Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
is it the bridge to your heart :3c
Yeah surely it's all business! No WAY companies hold grudges or do crazy shit! you're all just crazy!
didn't Nintendo have a guy killed before? or was that just a urban legend?
Dreamwriter
Member
The person claims that in Japan in that era the video game industry was considered similar to the porn and gambling industries - video games promoted spending time on self-entertainment rather than being productive, so the games industry in Japan was the kind of environment you would find gangsters.
Those Love Hotels were spotless!
Hot Coldman
Banned
The "rumour" (incredibly daft story) is that Yamauchi had Gunpei Yokoi killed for going off and making the Wonderswan. Of course, that's pretty disrespectful a thing to consider.
Yamauchi having links to organised crime wouldn't surprise me, but this thing is just sensationalist bullshit
The Nintendo Life commentor joyousneck did find the article about the [REDACTED] company putting employees into a "quarantine" room: http://www.japan-press.co.jp/2001/2234/sega.html
It was SEGA.
Yeah I heard about this.
It is quite obvious that since SEGA was the company who was in court for the quarantine room thing that a connection could very easily be made here.
FlyingSaucer
Banned
I hesitate between Sega and SNK.
Some of the stories you hear about the 80s/90s are fantastic. Good times.
Some of the stories you hear about the 80s/90s are fantastic. Good times.
HideyoshiJP
Member
What? No way Sega Sammy has any shady goings on.
C'mon, Nagoshi-san knows nothing of seedy underbellies.
FranXico
Member
Hiring thugs is a thing of the past.
Modern day international corporations use much more refined methods, such as lobbying with US congressmen and EU commissions.
Eolz
Member
Today's console wars look ultra tame in comparison
Don't worry, Kimishima is bringing back old school methods.
mrmickfran
Member
Wasn't this something related to Star Fox 64?
AuthenticM
Member
People need to answer to justice.
not to mention how big they are in the Pachinko business (huge ties again to Yakuza that business right there back then!)
......I could easily label them as the ones.
Even though.....they didn't enter the market till 2006 lol
minameissteve
Banned
Seth Rogan's Console Wars film has so much potential.
daTRUballin
Member
Not sure if this is real or not, but this is insane.
That unnamed company is probably Sega, isn't it?
That unnamed company is probably Sega, isn't it?
AuthenticM
Member
Dude, totally.
The quarantine bit certainly points to them.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Not only that, they were notorious assholes when it came to preventing developers and publishers from making games for Sega consoles.
No way Nintendo was "clean" back then.
This particular story, if true, is most likely Sega though.
Come to Butt-Head
Banned
I can't believe this. I just can't.
Sapiens
Member
In my mind the Japanese version of Christopher moltosanti made the order.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Damn son !
That bit about smashing an arcade cabinet in front of their offices to call them out is b.a.d.a.s.s.
That bit about smashing an arcade cabinet in front of their offices to call them out is b.a.d.a.s.s.
Hellsing321
Member
Yeah. Makes this tweet way more sinister.
https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/663801237771436032
FranXico
Member
Agreed, seeing people still trying to paint Nintendo as saints is cringeworthy.
RealityCheque
Banned
All I need to read is the title.
It's Konami isn't it?!
It's Konami isn't it?!
Of course Nintendo didn't need to get in bed with the underworld. Have you seen what they were like in under Yamauchi? Nintendo were their own damned Yakuza!
Mr.Galahad
Member
Am I the only one who wants to know what the hell happened with the dev's sister instead of knowing who did it?
Was she released after the arcade dropping?
Was she released after the arcade dropping?
20 years ago? Probably SEGA. Gotta secure those saturn games
FriedConsole
Banned
Why not just say it is Sega?
How many Japanese game companies had "game machines"? Hudson Soft and NEC?? We know it is not Nintendo. I don't think we need to speculate too much.
How many Japanese game companies had "game machines"? Hudson Soft and NEC?? We know it is not Nintendo. I don't think we need to speculate too much.
daTRUballin
Member
Does anybody think this could be Sony? They're a Japanese company too, after all. And this story happened about twenty years ago around the time the PlayStation came out......
Most likely not, but you never know.
Most likely not, but you never know.
FranXico
Member
Sony were not a big games company back in 1995, nor were they invested in the arcade business.