Beat Takeshi?

[pancho]

Some of you might be interested in this piece about Takeshi Kitano's near impossible videogame, Takeshi no Chōsenjō, if you've not heard about it before. Includes some ace footage.

[Rsdio]

I've read before that hates games, I didn't realise he hated them quite that much though

[bcass]

the game’s final boss takes 20, 000 hits before he is defeated

Ah, so that's where Retro Studios got the idea.

I love the idea shown in the shmup stage - shoot something and it's game over (made a million times harder by the fact that it auto-fires)!

[roadkill]

I was really impressed with the CG Taito branding at the end of one of those vids for it's apparent age. Just shows how much money they used to have.

RIP Taito.

[bcass]

That last clip shows probably the best TV advert ever made.

[Dimahoo]

Pen and Teller did a nasty driving game as part of a pack they did.

[super_quincy]

Wasn't Takeshi quoted once to have said "The Nintendo generation should be boiled in oil" ?

[Gique]

indeed he did - it's funny how taito were doing abstarct stuff like this back in the day for a commercial release.

[Dimahoo]

They always liked to do that though. They had a real sense of humor in them days.

[BossSaru]

Wow. Remember the days when you only got one game every six months or so? How crap would your Christmas have been if you got a Famicom with that game?

[Unofficial Who]

On the other side, weren't NES licensess limited to releasing either 2 or 4 releases a year to maintain quality?

Imagine bringing out a game like that in that sort of commercial environment.

[JPickford (retired mod)]

On the other side, weren't NES licensess limited to releasing either 2 or 4 releases a year to maintain quality?

Imagine bringing out a game like that in that sort of commercial environment.

No they were limited to a maximum of 5. Which was quite a clever idea as it kept the quality up. There was an exception in that any game that scored more than 32* (out of 40*) in Nintendo's internal review system didn't count towards the 5. So you could release as many brilliant games as you like.

*I may have remembered these numbers wrongly.