4gamer's latest feature is on the career of Namco producer Junichiro Koyama: his early life, his relationship with Namco's legendary engineer Shigeki Toyama, his successes & failures in arcades and how they led to Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield 4gamer.net/games/999/G999…🇯🇵
Koyama made a lot of Namco's late'90s/early-'00s arcade games, so one of the more interesting insights from this feature is on what it was like, personally and career-wise, when the arcade bubble burst & all of a sudden your output is being singled out as the weak link
when I say "singled out" I mean someone from sales called him up so he could listen to unsold cabinets he made being crushed & fed into a furnace
anyway, here are some photos of Junichiro Koyama as a toku-loving kid—that second pic's from a Sharivan movie he shot in his backyard
anyway, here are some photos of Junichiro Koyama as a toku-loving kid—that second pic's from a Sharivan movie he shot in his backyard
they briefly mention a game Koyama worked on that I'd never heard of: Honne Hakken-ki, a two-player quiz game/lie detector that apparently uses voice analysis tech licensed from Mossad to determine the psychological state of the speaker
