Yoshiki Okamoto was out of money before he got the Monster Strike contract. So many devs that I know personally from the classic arcade era who made the biggest hits are living in one bedroom apartments or back in the countryside with their families. Things have changed a bit but dividends are rare.
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Max Nichols
This sobering quote from Akiman about the time some of the street fighter team visited the home of the president of Incredible Technologies, the subcontracted US studio that made the Street Fighter: The Movie game
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ultimately, it meant he was less involved than he wanted to be bc it cost more to use him vs a salaried employee
Then all the less famous people of the 80s in the JP videogame "industry" (don't know if it could be called that... well by the end of the decade maybe moreso) that undoubtedly were chewed in and out given the pace of development of games back then...
Like, I know it was the bubble economy and all that but...
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