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Rumour: Game company kidnapped dev's sister to stop them from working with Nintendo
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Shin Kojima
Banned
It does feel pretty sweet looking back and knowing I was rooting for the good guys back then!
jhmtehgamr20xx
Banned
This happened in the 80s. Sega didn't exit the console market until 2001. That's a good bit more than a "few years".
Just sayin'.
If it were NOA, possibly. They did side w/ Joe Lieberman and other Congressmen to shame Sega and others into essentially creating the ESRB.
Which needed to happen anyhow, but the whole thing could've gone about in a better way.
TreasureHunterG
Banned
If was Sega, as people are suggesting, this means the dev in question was a double agent in a time where they were still competing on the hardware biz, as it states it was 20 years ago. I honestly find this very unlikely for a Sega dev to secretly work for Nintendo. If he did, then probably he was using a pseudonym.
If I would bet on someone, I would probably put my money on a third-party developer. As the article clearly says it was an arcade maker, a top-notch japanese developer and excludes Namco. SNK wasn't really that big to be considered top-notch, so I don't think that fits. Enix and Square, besides their split with Nintendo, weren't invested into arcades.
I would certainly bet on Konami or Capcom on this. Capcom would be my most certain guess. Konami still had some ties with Nintendo, even after the Nintendo-Square split which sparked a mass japanese third-party exodus. They managed to develop some games for both GB/GBC and N64. If was Konami, then was probably someone from the MGS, Suikoden, DDR or Silent Hill team, which never made anything for Nintendo by that time.
Capcom, on the other hand, almost completely dropped support for a time for any Nintendo platform, for very odd reasons, when they had very strong identification with them. Capcom planned to release some games for N64 and never said anything again about that. They only managed to release a Tetris game and two very late ports of Resident Evil 2 (which was outsourced) and Megaman Legends. Nintendo never got a single arcade port from Capcom either, which was very strange.
I may be completely wrong and making wild guesses, but let's wait and see.
If I would bet on someone, I would probably put my money on a third-party developer. As the article clearly says it was an arcade maker, a top-notch japanese developer and excludes Namco. SNK wasn't really that big to be considered top-notch, so I don't think that fits. Enix and Square, besides their split with Nintendo, weren't invested into arcades.
I would certainly bet on Konami or Capcom on this. Capcom would be my most certain guess. Konami still had some ties with Nintendo, even after the Nintendo-Square split which sparked a mass japanese third-party exodus. They managed to develop some games for both GB/GBC and N64. If was Konami, then was probably someone from the MGS, Suikoden, DDR or Silent Hill team, which never made anything for Nintendo by that time.
Capcom, on the other hand, almost completely dropped support for a time for any Nintendo platform, for very odd reasons, when they had very strong identification with them. Capcom planned to release some games for N64 and never said anything again about that. They only managed to release a Tetris game and two very late ports of Resident Evil 2 (which was outsourced) and Megaman Legends. Nintendo never got a single arcade port from Capcom either, which was very strange.
I may be completely wrong and making wild guesses, but let's wait and see.
Deadpool_X
Banned
A black light would say differently.
choodi
Banned
What a load of bullshit.
I also independently verified that aliens exist and they are using anal probes to look for tasty treats, but you know, I can't say anything to protect the guilty.
If it's true, legal action is not a problem.
LOL
Anonymous sources talking about old crimes by anonymous perpetrators, as recounted to author by person with a pseudonym?
Grampa Simpson
Banned
SEGA
Tekomandor
Member
Legal thing. Otherwise you set yourself up for a defamation lawsuit.
The writer knows the source's name and met with him in person. The pseudonym was actually the writer's idea so he could publish the interview.
jhmtehgamr20xx
Banned
Actually, this is very plausible. How Capcom more or less switched from Nintendo's bed to Sony's isn't that much different than other Japanese devs at the time. But to then also more or less cozy up with Sega almost as well (and depending on your gaming preferences, more than) Sony? When that wasn't the case just years prior?
Yeah. Suddenly Capcom seems much more likely as the culprit. Besides Sega, Namco and SNK they're really the only other dev at the time with major clout in the arcade scene. And circumstantial evidence points towards them now that I think about it.
Your reasoning makes a lot of sense. To add even more fuel to this, it's worth considering locations. Capcom HQ is in Osaka, Nintendo's in Kyoto. The two companies are geographically close, so this story makes more sense. Sega vs Nintendo, not so much, because it's a long damned way to Tokyo. Also the Yakuza grip in Osaka is insane. Way deeper than Tokyo, I believe.
staticneuron
Member
Came in here looking for this. Faith in GAF restored. Thank you!
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Godamn, that is some insane shit
Sorry to dig up an old thread, but l'm doing research into 80s gaming in Japan with a special accent on CAPCOM and am reading Sczzepaniak's book. I know about the links to Yakuza in Japan, but was never aware of this.
Was any of this ever verified? I have a tendency to lean towards SNKSEGA but CAPCOM just seen to be big enough to fit the bill.
Of course l will do my own research but if there's anything else to add, it would be good to hear.