Technically it wouldn't be the overall debut of the series, but rather its console debut. There was an arcade game that was released in 1985 (Back when what we had as Fighting Games was either arcade (Super) Punch-Out, Karate Champ, or Yi Ar Kung Fu, and Beat-em-ups were basically Kung Fu Master/Spartan X and anything that wanted to be that. Stuff like Renegade/Kunio and Street Fighter weren't out yet, the former a year away, the latter two.) Localized as Shanghai Kid, it was only the Tournament sections.
feels like I heard about the yakuza thing in one of my retrogaming circles, so I'd be inclined to believe it. as for hiryu no ken, I'm sure I fired it up in an emulator out of curiosity. I thought the combat stuff was neat, at least.
The journalist I heard it from has probably repeated the story a few times. It's nothing conclusive, but it would be surprising if there wasn't at least one game studio during the Famicom boom that was a yakuza front since they had a ton of cash to throw around and some of it got invested in actual businesses.
I was always a fan of the second game we got on the NES, though it's a combination of two Famicom games so I won't get to see it in this series.
Technically it wouldn't be the overall debut of the series, but rather its console debut. There was an arcade game that was released in 1985 (Back when what we had as Fighting Games was either arcade (Super) Punch-Out, Karate Champ, or Yi Ar Kung Fu, and Beat-em-ups were basically Kung Fu Master/Spartan X and anything that wanted to be that. Stuff like Renegade/Kunio and Street Fighter weren't out yet, the former a year away, the latter two.) Localized as Shanghai Kid, it was only the Tournament sections.
he mentions that in the video
feels like I heard about the yakuza thing in one of my retrogaming circles, so I'd be inclined to believe it. as for hiryu no ken, I'm sure I fired it up in an emulator out of curiosity. I thought the combat stuff was neat, at least.
The journalist I heard it from has probably repeated the story a few times. It's nothing conclusive, but it would be surprising if there wasn't at least one game studio during the Famicom boom that was a yakuza front since they had a ton of cash to throw around and some of it got invested in actual businesses.
Now I want a scene in Yakuza 0 where a middle aged sunglasses wearing yakuza boss has some very pointed opinions about what's going into his games
@@RndStranger That would certainly make sense, they'd presumably have to launder it somehow. That's a really interesting story, by the way.
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and yet you're here