A newly translated developer interview with Tokuro Fujiwara!
The creator of Ghosts'n Goblins, Resident Evil, and other famous series discusses the first games he made upon joining Konami and Capcom in the 80's, as well as the background behind his more famous series.
Did you know that...
• Fujiwara didn't even realize Konami was a game company when he applied for a job?
• Ghosts'n Goblins' Red Arremers are named after a staffer called Toshio Arima?
• Back in the days when on-site testing of unfinished games was conducted in public arcades, a developer's biggest fear was competitors finding out and stealing their ideas, then releasing their own company's game ahead of the one they were copying?
• Resident Evil was originally going to use a 1st-person view?
• The opening movie for Resident Evil was made black and white because it was judged to be too scary?
• 20 years later, famed game developer Yoshiki Okamoto is still incensed that someone beat his file on the original Legend of Zelda while he was away on a business trip?
Read all of this and more in The Man Who Made Ghosts'n Goblins!
http://www.glitterberri.com/developer-interviews/tokuro-fujiwara/
The creator of Ghosts'n Goblins, Resident Evil, and other famous series discusses the first games he made upon joining Konami and Capcom in the 80's, as well as the background behind his more famous series.
Did you know that...
• Fujiwara didn't even realize Konami was a game company when he applied for a job?
• Ghosts'n Goblins' Red Arremers are named after a staffer called Toshio Arima?
• Back in the days when on-site testing of unfinished games was conducted in public arcades, a developer's biggest fear was competitors finding out and stealing their ideas, then releasing their own company's game ahead of the one they were copying?
• Resident Evil was originally going to use a 1st-person view?
• The opening movie for Resident Evil was made black and white because it was judged to be too scary?
• 20 years later, famed game developer Yoshiki Okamoto is still incensed that someone beat his file on the original Legend of Zelda while he was away on a business trip?
Read all of this and more in The Man Who Made Ghosts'n Goblins!
http://www.glitterberri.com/developer-interviews/tokuro-fujiwara/