Skeletons in the closet of your favorite game developers

[3DSStrider]

Paper Mario Sticker Star
Soulcalibur V
Sonic 2006
Anything Capcom's done in the past five years or so

[BoneSnapDeez]

Private Stripper (女子大生プライベート) by Falcom

Yes, the beloved developers of many of the most influential JRPGs of all time had humble beginnings of making cheesy basement dweller games where you put a puzzle together to see a girl in the bikini. (There's gotta be a joke to be made about BoneSnapDeez here, I just can't quite make it sound natural)

I knew about this game. And I have played it. Not Falcom's best.

Square and Enix (but not Square Enix) also developed eroge games back in the PC-88 days.

I think Tecmo would like everyone to forget about this:

[J T]

I think Tecmo would like everyone to forget about this:

OH GOD! I had forgotten about it until you necromanced it back from its unholy grave!

[BoneSnapDeez]

The part that stings most is how damn proud Tecmo seemed of it. Hell "Tecmo" is technically part of the title and it's branded as being part of a "Tecmo RPG Series" (which of course never had another game beyond this one).

[Gunstar Green]

The part that stings most is how damn proud Tecmo seemed of it. Hell "Tecmo" is technically part of the title and it's branded as being part of a "Tecmo RPG Series" (which of course never had another game beyond this one).

I like how somebody in marketing was suddenly, "SHIT! We need the word FANTASY in the title."

[Blu]

What if Yu Suzuki made Shenmue as an autobiography, and has yet to fight his ailing arch-nemesis. But seriously Dave, troll more! It's a great game!

[J T]

The part that stings most is how damn proud Tecmo seemed of it. Hell "Tecmo" is technically part of the title and it's branded as being part of a "Tecmo RPG Series" (which of course never had another game beyond this one).

I like how somebody in marketing was suddenly, "SHIT! We need the word FANTASY in the title."

I honestly never even noticed that before. It really does seem like they tacked it on at the last minute.

I also am amazed at how horrible the cover art is. It looks like a Japanese manga and an American children's book had some unfortunate baby.

[dsheinem]

It's a great game!

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[flojocabron]

To your shenmue I add this!

[SoltanGris]

I think some of the people who made Daikatana still have jobs in the industry.

Here's the ad we all know and love, but I noticed something I had never noticed before: look at the phrase that they actually bothered to get Trade Marked.

I think they might have sold the trade mark to a porn company to recoup costs.

They needed to keep hold of it for the eventual release of Duke Nukem.