A small portion of this video at the 3:35 mark was removed because it displeased RUclips's computers. It read... "His role as an executive would, on occasion, lead him to travel around the world in search of interesting and entertaining stories that could be brought home. In March, 1984, Haruo Shikanai traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the world famous Mardi Gras festival: Carnival. He did not come alone. A large camera crew, along with on-air talent, producers and some executives accompanied him on the trip. Witnessing the wonderful time everyone was having, an idea began to take shape. What if Japan had a Carnival of their own?"
Did you know, in Yakuza 0 on PS4 which is set in the late 1980s; one of the night clubs is renamed to Maharaja for only that entry in the series. There are also vending machines called “Dream Machines” which you can win items from. In all other entries in the Yakuza series, the same club is called something else.
Get out! Now to be fair maharaja was used for other stuff at that time. There’s an ad I found but didn’t use that had maharaja as a club and other stuff but still that is very cool. I know the ps4 is still pretty new but I’ll have to pick one up someday and check that out!
This was strangely moving. I felt like I was there even though I lived halfway across the globe and was but a toddler at the time. I think it's just the way the people of Japan at the time really embraced the hope and vision of the future. I don't know, but this was excellent work. Thank you for your time creating and sharing this!
Great Video as Always I used to think that Yume Kojo was some kind of Anime Series back when I found out that was basis for the Game that later became Super Mario 2 back in the Early 2000's until I saw the Original Version of this Video back in 2016
Yes. I always felt that way too. And when I found the anmitsu hime episode I was going crazy because I though she would meet imajin in the episode. Unfortunately it didn’t happen. But as you know I plant seeds in videos that bloom later on and there are at least 3 here that may answer the question as to where imajin is these days.
I'm not kidding when I say that this may be my new favorite video on RUclips. Words cannot express how much I wish I could've experienced Yume Kojo in the flesh. It literally sounds like the greatest event in history to me. If time travel were real and somebody asked me when and where I wanted to go, I'd be like, mid-1987, Tokyo, please, so I can attend Yume Kojo. ;) (Osaka would be fine too, of course, but I'd pick Tokyo of the two, simply because I'd have easy access to places like '80s Akihabara and such when not attending the event, which would be super awesome to see all on its own!) It's positively CRIMINAL that more people don't talk about this event, so I don't think I can overstate how much I appreciate the extreme thoroughness and attention to detail of both your previous video and this one. Since viewing your last video, I've collected a few Yume Kojo-related items -- a telephone card, an uchiwa fan that plays "It's a Small World" as you swing it, and a necklace as a gift for a friend. I really, really want to buy one of the masks, though -- I've been keeping an eye on Yahoo Japan Auctions for one, and checking a lot of old antique shops and such in places like Nakano Broadway. Not the same, though, as experiencing the event first-hand. But this video really is like the next best thing. Thank you so much for making it!
Hey! Good to see you back my friend! You should look into buying one direct from Italy. They still exist! Anyway yeah it’s sad it’s not more well known and strange no one talks about it other than to explain super Mario 2. Which is interesting but there’s so much more. There’s soooooooo much technology and programs that were seen here and never seen again. A lot of it I’d consider lost. I have a magical romance card but how can I ever read the data on it? That program probably doesn’t exist anymore. Ditto the info kiosks and the robot janken game thing I show after super game z. It’s like a pink monitor with kids sitting around some kind of keyboard. Anyway the closest thing I’d say is Osaka expo 25 and I swear I will be there! They are Going to open the maglev that goes Tokyo to Osaka in 70 minutes or so!! Unbelievable!
@@GTV-Japan Maybe I'll see you there! Because, yeah, provided I'm still in Japan at that time (which I have EVERY intention to be!), I ain't gonna miss it. ;)
Great vid, as always. Interesting context for video game (and entertainment in general) history. This is far and beyond the usual Mario USA stuff on RUclips. This era feels very unique and optimistic.
Thanks for like the video and being here day one! Even though retro is the buzzword online I admire futurism much more. Especially a bright optimistic one, not dark and dystopian.
Seriously such a fantastic video. A certain historian covered the video game that came out of this. They only said this was a means for Fuji to talk about their upcoming shows and did NOT mention how this was meant to be a celebration of imagination. Even now, I cannot find anything about this event with a google search as it seems all people care about is Doki Doki Panic because of how it became Super Mario Bros. 2 in the US. Super Game Z looks like so much fun. I hope something like this happens again! Great work here again!
Thanks I appreciate the support then now and always! Even in Japanese there isn’t much more info, mostly about the band. That’s why I took it upon myself to get the answers. Thankfully Fuji preserved the info very well at the time and the trick was just to find that. There will be more about Fuji and the post YK world coming in a video someday and when I get that done I hope you’ll enjoy that too! 🎭🎭🎭
That description of Super Game Z adds even more layers to Ryo having the Outrun arcade machine as his car in Sega All Stars Racing Transformed. It was potentially a Yume Kojo reference on top of everything else reference-y about it, amazing.
As a child I always adored festivals and amusement parks and this seems like this would have been amazing to attend. This past week I went to a local amusement park for the first time in ages and it astonished me how fast my anxiety disappeared and I felt like a kid again in all the best ways.
That’s great to hear. Not that we need to feel specific nostalgia but to just let go and enjoy the moment, like kids do is the best therapy I can think of. Have a great weekend 🎭
Since your first Yume Kojo video, I've been searching every corner of the internet for the Yume Kojo carnival masks featured thoughout the event. Sadly, I still haven't found any.
I loved the original video and shared it with everyone, and this makes it better in every way. I feel like you have left no stone unturned, and I really appreciate you going the extra mile to show what it was really like being there at such a momentous event. I can't help but think that some of the elementary school kids in that 3D theater could be the same people that brought today's Miku hologram concerts to fruition...
I’d have to say that’s a good possibility! Thanks for the support then and now. And we will see Fuji as a topic again in the future I guarantee that! 🎭
Hey man just discovered your channel recently. Your channel and content is very underrated tbh. Please continue the great work and hope you grow into bigger heights. You deserve way more subs and views than what you're getting now.
Thank you! I am already onto the next topic. And the next after that. We will See where it goes but honestly I would Make the same videos for an audience of 10 or a million. I just enjoy it and enjoy when others find it. Have a great weekend 🎭
Thanks, Cole! I’m always happy to hear that. This one took extra time to make sure it was extra good. But like all videos I make them on the train going back and forth to work, and just take it seriously until it gets done ✅
I remember reading an interview that you did with Retro Injection and how you explained how you were rejected by several "big name" RUclipsrs who weren't interested before deciding you'll just make the video yourself. If you didn't happen to find that book, Gaijilionare TV wouldn't exist and the story of Yume Kojo '87 event would likely fade into obscurity, aside from the mind-blowing gamer fact regarding Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros 2/USA. I wasn't expecting you to remake the video but I'm glad you did, it's a lot better than the original version. Thank you for all your hard work presenting and documenting Japanese pop cultural history.
That’s true. At the time I discovered RUclips I would have assumed someone would have some info but no. When I found the info I had no channel. So I tried to find someone who was big and could spread the word. No one of any big size replied and I can kind of understand why. When you have someone emailing you out of the blue claiming to have secret info about Doki Doki panic. What would you think it was?! The only channel that replied was only 1600 subscribers which I thought was big at the time. That channel doesn’t even exist anymore and I can’t even recall the name. Some American in Thailand. He told me to take a hike basically. At the time I was just going to make one video and be done but it didn’t end up that way. That’s for sure. Thanks for the support
The most amazing thing on display? Frankly, the work put into it, I'm always amazed at way things run on the backstage to keep them smooth and the excellent work that went into making it possible. And the 360° experience, sounds chilly! Excellent video.
The documents I have show the backstage setup. But I didn’t include it because it’s just a white box with hundreds of cables coming out of it and didn’t look like anything anyone would comprehend. But it’s basically a few video disc players set to random. That all it says and beyond that. No idea. 🎭
What’s funny is every photo has nobody wearing a coat. But then again it was august and there were 1000s of people indoors so it was probably a great break from the heat!
@@GTV-Japan Ah, the white box... Even worse than the black box that cloaks itself in the shadows. The white box shows itself readily while revealing nothing, taunting even moreso! 😂 I can't believe the caption of setting it to random, unless they ran into issues. The still picture at 25:44 shows a complex gradient that would be tough to pull off if the screens were even clustered vertically together, which could be assumed with the 3 screen tall dancing people in the video shots. The video shot, with repetition of objects, makes me hypothesize not every screen had a unique image, but with clever multiplexing to switch between the video disc inputs, could create the illusion as the 3 tall picture could be swapped to an adjacent stack displaying something else. I am guestimating 8 to 12 lassr disc systems, with the static picture mentioned above. The disc players would solve any issue with syncing with something like vcr tapes, which was what I was thinking at first. Now I wonder if they were arcade video cd's, or video laserdiscs...
I have a list of all the machines used and laserdisc was not mentioned. Video discs and videotape are mentioned but it would probably be beta cam or super vhs at the least, it doesn’t say. When I worked in TV it was always betacam. Video disc could be vcd or something else proprietary. Who knows?!
Your original video about this is, and I'm not exagerating, one of my favorite pieces of documentary ever. Just saw you reuploaded a new version and I can't wait to watch it again. Thank you for this, again!
@@GTV-Japan Got the difference :) watched your new version, along with the 2016 one again, and share it already with friends, who were also impressed. it's going to sound weird maybe, but tears come out of my eyes often when watching this...
Tell me about it! They complain japan has been in recession since 1990 or so but I don’t see it. People here are still insanely rich! I have no idea where the money comes from.
I remember *going* to Expo 85 (and Expo 86 in Vancouver BC), but I don't remember anything about it. Yume Kojo looks WAY more memorable. It's kind of cool to think that I was the target audience for it.
@@GTV-Japan well, mom is Japanese and happened to be visiting family in 1985 and then live in the PNW so it was easy to get to Canada. 1985 was when I got to play the Famicom and I was blown away by Excitebike and Mario Bros
Another amazing episode. The world honestly owes you quite the debt for all the preservation, presentation, reporting, research, entertainment, and education you provide. Thank you!
I think the events broadcast simultaneously on tv, and at each location with headsets were pretty great. It’s almost like today’s internet live-streaming, only more impressive due to the two physical locations. For certain, the planning and cross involvement of all the attractions, programs, and “software” between multiple organizations is the most impressive thing of all.
That was absolutely fabulous and a pleasure to watch, the additional footage and pictures are amazing! This felt like travelling back in time and getting to be a part of something special we didn't even know existed if it weren't for Super Mario Bros. 2. Well done sir!
Having learned a lot in recent years about Japan's bubble era and the still ongoing trauma stemming from its sudden end really adds a bittersweet edge to something like this.
Thank you so much for this video. It was incredibly interesting. I remember loving your first video about Yume Kojo, and I got the same feeling from this one.
Hey! Bård! My good man! Thanks for enjoying the video as always! This one was a challenge because how can you remake the same information into a different experience but I hope I have delivered in a way you could like. Have a great weekend 🎭
Thank you, GTV for once more, filling in a much needed gap in Western-Japanese Pop Culture fandom. Yume Kojou is seriously peak Japan. It's a darn shame the Lost Decade went down like it did, because it seems very few Expos and events short of the Nagano '98 Olympics came close to the magic of this. But hey, that's economics for ya. I'd love to see an alternate universe where we'd hear of events like Yume Kojou '94, '97, and Yume Kojou Millennium.
That would be cool! The problem is that Haruo Shikanai died soon after. His brother took over Fuji but it looks like he fell into some sort of scandal. Don’t know what happened there. And after that well I guess they had no interest in it. There are smaller events here and there but there will be expo 25 in Osaka in 3 years! I can’t wait
The lost decade is the recession, borderline depression that has been plaguing japan since the 90s. It’s more like 3 decades now. Things like a 10% sales tax certainly won’t fix it.
I know this video is a year old now, but as a big fan of Super Mario Bros. 2 it's awesome to see more recognition to Dream Factory. Alot of people take Doki Doki Panic at face-value and just forget that the entire game is to promote an entire festival, so this is a great video to watch for those who want to know more about it.
Honestly the amount of marketing is the most intense part to me. Bands, renaming TV shows, games, etc… I’ve never seen a non Japanese company go that far. The bands are the oddest part though. Not in a bad way just the most extreme.
My personal favorite is discovision 360 but it’s clearly the most out of date. Just look at the WWE Titantron these days or Times Square or wherever with a giant led wall. However with a retro appeal I could see an array of old SDTVs running something like that and being popular. Thanks for watching!🎭
This is terrific! I'm glad you revisited the Yume Kojo story; the original is my favorite video of yours. This one gives even more texture to a passing moment in time.
@@GTV-Japan You too (even if you never left xD) Yume Kojo never fails to be super interesting AND inspirational. The fact so much of what the event saw of the future actually came true..
I can't believe all of this was hidden behind my favorite NES game Super Mario Bros. 2 all this time. When I was playing it in 1991 I was in grade 2 and never in my wildest dreams would I have guessed this amazing festival was behind it all. What a fantastic idea it was, to nurture and inspire the dreams of the next generation. Loved the sentiment there at the end of the video. We are all living in that world now, we just need to make sure all of it is in service to the greater good of humanity, not humanity in service of IT. A video for the ages, well done mate, definitely one of your best so far
Cheers for watching the whole thing. It really is an amazing story and still so unbelievable that it’s not more well known especially when everyone knows what the name Yume Kojo is but not the event itself.
Did you know Super Mario Bros. 2 was actually originally a Japanese game called Doki Doki Panic? JK Amazing video GTV Japan. Great video as always! You have incredible content.
I’ve been recommending the original video to people as recently as a few weeks ago, though I haven’t watched it since it first came out. I was considering a rewatch anyway after all this time, but I feel like I will only appreciate the improvements if I see them both back to back. This is not a problem I mind having. When the subject comes up, I briefly describe it as a “World’s Fair like event put on by a Japanese television network to promote their programming while serving as a preview of the emerging millennium.” And then just link them to your old video, It’s criminally underdescribing it, but I always fear to say more would to risk errors and you covered and explained the event so well!
That video will stay up. I won’t remove it but it’s more for the casual person who is more into just games. Less about Japanese modern history or culture. This is the video I always wanted to make but if I did it this way first back then, I doubt anyone would have understood it. Anyway thanks for sharing and supporting the channel!!! 🎭
@@GTV-Japan I finally watched it, and boy was it fantastic, even more so than the earlier video, which I still consider valuable. I was born in the US around the time this event took place, so it's fascinating having grown up both amidst the waning phase of the technology that was current at the time Yume Kojo, (analog broadcast TV, 8 bit video games, and DOS based computers were common sights for me) while also entering my teens and adulthood living first hand the world Yume Kojo optimistically forecast, including the act I'm participating in by watching and responding to this video. I'm curious, in the earlier video, you seemed to more regularly use the "Dream Factory" interpretation of the name, which is the version I have, over the years, seen associated when explaining the tie-in game for Famicom Disk System, whereas in this video you use "Dream Machine" seemingly universally. Based on period material I saw both in your OG video and in this one, it seems like they used the "Dream Machine" and "Dream Factory" styling interchangeably, which one would you say is more accurate to what they originally intended?
In the old video I only used dream factory once offhandedly and kind of in a snarky way just do everyone knew what I was talking about. Fuji never ever used the words dream factory and always used dream machine. If you asked anyone what Yume Kojo meant in English they’d say dream machine. I also prefer that over factory because it shows you’re in the small minority who are “in the know” as opposed to the millions who just repeat the same story about the “super Mario 2 reskin” or what have you that’s been on every site forever. I really thought it would change a lot of mind and perceptions about what happened back then but it turns out a lot of people don’t care and just want to hear the same stories they already know. So when you say dream machine to someone and they say oh no you’re wrong it’s dream factory the game that became Mario 2 that promoted Fuji tvs fall lineup, you can walk away knowing your that much smarter.
@@GTV-Japan Cool! I think it says a lot to the perceived prestige of the event that Nintendo was willing to put AAA resources into a game featuring characters they didn't even own the rights as a way to become involved, even if they didn't host any pavilions or exhibits on-site. I think that regardless of concerns over US market reception of the FDS version of Super Mario Bros 2, Nintendo not owning the characters for a game they spent so much time and money creating would have made something similar to the Famicom cartridge release of Super Mario USA an eventuality as a way for Nintendo to publish their own game without needing to pay royalties for arguably out-of-date characters while also promoting an event which had already came and went by then.
I used to recommend that video any time the whole SMB2/DDP thing comes up, definitely covered everything you could ever want to know about the festival that lead to the original Japanese game! guess I can update my link and send them here instead?! the concept reminded me of something cool I got to see as a kid just a few years prior, the brainchild of steve wozniak of apple, it was called the US Festival, and it coupled several of the hottest musical acts of the early 80s with the latest and greatest in technology of the day! videogames, computers, musical equipment it was all featured at inside of a tent off to the side from the main stage where all the action was it definitely had some of the same general ideas!
@@GTV-Japan oh yeah it definitely blew me away at four years old, so many freaking people there! so I can kinda get the scope fo what they were trying to do with yume kojo, even though it only ran for about a weekend in 82 and 83. but I will definitely send people to this one if SMB2/DDP comes up, for sure.
Looking back at the lineups it’s amazing how they put together a mix of the most popular bands of the time with up and coming groups who would headline or be hall of famers later on. Not a single one hit wonder on the list
Thanks I’m glad you liked it. I thought the response would be positive, people have asked for a while but i finally found enough extra footage to make it work. Have a good weekend 🎭
I now feel so bereft that I didn't get to go to Japan for the first time until nine years after Yume Kojo! But, I then ask myself how much I really could have enjoyed it, having only been 6 years old for most of 1987, hahahaha.
It’s nice because really Hokkaido was. It as connected as it is now and it gave that area a chance to see Yume Kojo as well as extending the life of the exhibits.
It's interesting seeing as how insular Japan is there's probably millions of little nuggets like this that no one else in the world will ever know about. I say that to say thank you for this!
Dude you are telling me that this carnival, had tech that until these last 5 years had been accessible to everyone, incredible, this must be an interesting marketing studio case
Best gaming related channel on the tube. Many thanks giving us a view into not only the current topic at hand, but also that of contemporary japan of that time. Fantastic work
The day after I was born, a 44-day celebration began, in Japan. This video makes me nostalgic and yearn for something I never attended or was even near. It's nothing I could remember. But this is my third time watching this video. It's hard to pit being a father and husband against wanting to go back in time to when SMB2 was radish picking. I love the history of this event.
Really outstanding. The original Yume Kōjō video was already excellent, still this one knocks it out of the park! No doubt this took some time. Thank You!
You’re welcome! Yeah it took time but really it was always my plan to come back and revisit the topic. Just waiting for enough found footage to pop up. Thanks for watching 🎭
It's pretty terrifying for me to think that such a huge event in Japan has so little surviving media from it outside of, well, a certain Famicom Disk System title.
I know! Why weren’t all those hologram setups etc preserved? It’s the same folly that befalls much media. It’s time is up and is “old” so scrap it and move onto the next. I did find some interesting things that were saved that I’ll reveal later. But it’s only a few scant pieces sadly. Take care my friend until then.
@@GTV-Japan I'll look forward to the later reveal! I'm kinda curious about the prospect of any Sega material that may have not seen any wide release outside of this event. Well, I don't exactly know how Super Game Z could get MAME dumped or thrown in an arcade1up or anything, but I mean, it's Sega, the guys who made Maraca controllers and fishing rod controllers, they must have had some more stuff there.
Wow. Fantastic video. I thoroughly enjoyed your original Yume Kōjō video, and this follow-up was way beyond what I could've hoped for. So comprehensive yet easy to digest, this video surely becomes the de facto resource for those asking "What was Yume Kōjō?"
Thanks Neil ! As I was making it I realized a lot of people already knew about YK from the first video so I still think of the fist one was “what was” the new is more like “this is Yume Kojo “ but still for many it’s their first time either way so sure I say this is the new standard
@@GTV-Japan Thank you for making it! I'm glad I subscribe to your channel: I really wouldn't want to have missed out. As a big Mario fan, both parts are essential viewing. 👍
Thanks I appreciate the support. The story I basically over. There nothing more I know about. There were some parts cut out but that was just about the corporate structure of Fuji which dragged things down. And ultima was the game on display in Mach vision because it was by pony canyon who Fuji owned. But there are three “seeds” I planted in this video that I will come back to later and connect with this video. So someday you’ll see it 🌷
"As those of elementary school age in 1987 would be the first generation in the 21st century to become adults, the end result should be a vision of the future that inspired young minds." So yeah. The reason all my fellow elder millennials and I are on this video talking about how cool it looks is because *we are literally the target market!* And like *everything else* involved in this twenty-three ring extravaganza, they did a *really* good job! 😴💭🏭❤👍
Millennials? I don’t think those were born until the end of the 90s! Well, whether Gen X or Y or Millennial or whatever the Reiwa kids are called abroad, we’re all here now! I was inspired! I hope you were too
Oh, absolutely! The folks I was talking about as "elder millennials" were born in the late Shōwa period (late '70s/early '80s), so we're sometimes called "the generation that was growing up when the Internet was." In other words, just the ones they had in mind when making Yume Kojo. Thanks!
We need such an event so badly at the moment. It seems like the whole world just looks back instead of forward, holding onto a past that wasn't sustainable in the slightest. We just administer and not create anymore, no real vision for the future a nation or the world population could work towards. As a kid from the 90s, I can't stand the resignation of people today. Back in the 90s, we always woke up in wonder what the next day could offer in technology advances or opportunities. After the mid-2000s most people lost this mindset and it seems, at least here in germany, many people just want back to the old days of limitless energy with pollution and oppression of minorities to support their status quo. No one can imagine a bright and coloful future anymore, especially if you consider art as a representation of the Zeitgeist and look at the current dystopian nightmares it depicts. I want to look forward again, try to create a better world for everyone and bring joy to the faces of the younger generation, so they can start dreaming of what's to come...
Thanks! I don’t worry about the subscription count and just try to make what I like. I think eventually people who are interested will find it. Thanks for the support! 🎭
Sooner or later when Epcot Center puts a South Korea Pavillion, Warner Bros takes over the Tokyo Disney Parks and a Disney Park in South Korea becomes a rollercoaster nut's paradise.
With its carnival masks, Yume Kojo has the air of something in a creepypasta. This lofty, ambitious vision for an exposition, now so obscure, recovered only in grainy archival footage and photos. It would play a similar role that Hands Across America played in Jordan Peele's _Us._ I have to imagine something traumatic happened, got hushed-up.
What is a creepy pasta? Is that like spaghetti for Halloween? I do remember hands across America! Lionel Richie, Robin Williams and C3PO locking arms somewhere in Kansas.
2 more videos and (until today) I've finished the GTV channel. Don't know if I should wait and charge the X Buster, or finish the videos. Again, Love your channel!
We’ll finish it off on august 26 with the next video and when the one after that is done, it’s half done now, I’ll let you see it as a preview first in the world! Just get back to me in a week or 2
Well, I know what to do now: make a travel/space machine. Hope I can find myself on the video after this 🤔 Thanks for the video and the nostalgia feeling 👍
There's a high-pitched blip at 13:41. I love this more in-depth look at Dream Machine, tho. It's definitely a neat piece of history I wouldn't want forgotten. Thanks for the new video. :)
@@GTV-Japan Oh, okay. :) Maybe cuz I'm watching it on my phone, it sounded extra weird. Sounded like when there is an error in an audio file caused during file transfer.
No way. I screened this thing 10 times and watched it after uploading three times too. The sound is always a bit louder with headphones on though that’s for sure
That Princess anime devoting an episode to advertising this festival reminds me of those ABC sitcoms from the 90's all having episodes where the cast goes to Disney World. That Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro exhibit looks like it was great fun, and I wonder if the Nezumi-Otoko suit smelled like the character does. Okay, probably does after months of summer heat, especially from the inside.
Oh I’d rather not imagine haha. Anmitsu hime had a crossover with Kitaro later that year too. For some reason the episodes are sure hard to find though. Yes I remember when The Mouse bought ABC. Suddenly everyone visited California. Nothing beats the Brady Bunch ep. at King’s Island however.
@@GTV-Japan I once worked at some pop up advertisement for Cartoon Network, and I was basically begging to be in one of the mascot costumes, but they had people already for that. I snuck away at the end and put the Dexter head on just to see what it was like. But I wish they did. I would have had a ball being Cow.
@@GTV-Japan I wound up working a Hi C promotional booth. I lost that hat and shirt in the basement, though. Anyway, I would have gotten overheated if I was in one of those things, anyway. Plus you're supposed to remain silent, and I'd be too tempted to do one of my cartoon character impersonations at the time.
Really great update to the original. One of the few channels these days where I get to learn something new everytime. Plus refreshing to avoid the video game altogether.
@@GTV-Japan For such a massive event it seems so odd that it was only the game that has become widely known. The whole thing looks amazing. Like Epcot on steroids. Was very strange to see the word "Imagineers" used outside of a Disney context as well.
@@GTV-Japan That's just so weird as it seemed to be an incredibly complex undertaking and so very advanced and all that's really remembered is the game; and you could argue that's only because it was turned into a Mario one.
Thank you very very much for this video. ;^) Your efforts are highly appriciated. You managed to capture the spirit if this event oerfectly. All the respect to you. Wish you all the best and success in life. Thanks again for sharing. :o)
It's honestly sad that we never got the original Doki Doki Panic in the US in its original format due to Fuji TV owning the characters somehow (let alone any copyright situations). It would've been a nice game for the US to play in. And I wouldn't have minded an OVA of Yume Kojo's cast. Anyhow, thanks for the director's cut of this. It's always a blast to look at Yume Koujo and its history.
GeGeGe no Kitaro also had a video game adaptation for the Famicom in Japan which had its property replaced with another entity in the West, having been revised into Ninja Kid on the NES.
Oh 😱😱😯😯 that's interesting!! We would never really know about these things without research and first hand experience about these exotic things of years gone by!! 😮😮😮😮
Great work. I wonder if the imagineer mask, first promoted in Summer 1986, inspired JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure which started with a story featuring a cursed mask in January 1987.
@@GTV-Japan Also, weird coincidence that Anmitsu Hime was used to promote the event and ended up getting a game on the Mark III released exactly when the event started (July 1987), but that the official game of the event instead released on Famicom only!
Yeah. Well I’m going to continue that branch in the future. It’s funny that anmitsu hime also got transformed into alex kidd outside of japan just like doki doki panic and Mario 2. Actually Alex Kidd in high tech world is kind of fitting because the joke of anmitsu hime is that they have modern tech despite living in the 1800s. But yeah rest assured this will get its own video at some time in the next year.
Well GTV Japan I Would Have To Say The Most Interesting Part Of Yume Kojo Is The Video Game And The Characters They Are Truly Incredible And Inspiring It's Both Honorable And Memorable And I Absolutely Love It.👍👍😎💖🎮🏆
I've never wanted a time machine so much. I love world's fairs, and this feels very much like one. If I could time travel, two places I'd visit are Yume Kojo, and the 1964 New York World's Fair.
I had family who went to the worlds fair in 1939 and 1964! They told many many great stories about it. I love the general concept of the world of tomorrow and true progress.
@@GTV-JapanI've always loved the ideals of world's fairs. Hope for the future and uniting mankind. But I've never been able to attend one. The last US fair was New Orleans, in '84, 7 years before I was born. My parents went, and my older brother even performed a violin recital there. I collect souvenirs and memorabilia from fairs, though. Kinda vicariously experiencing them that way.
Have you ever thought of doing videos like this for other festivals? Like, your content is all video games, and I like that, but it would be interesting if you did some other content about just Japanese culture in general.
I played the game in 1987, but had no idea it was tied to such a large event until now. Even though I've been living in Japan for close to 2 decades, I haven't seen any retrospectives about Yume Kojo until I saw these videos. I wonder why this event and the original game are not mentioned more in Japan. It seems like Nintendo wants people to remember this as part of the Mario world rather than this other unique, one-off dream expo. Seeing some of the characters featured prominently in the Mario movie feels even stranger now.
There are no videos about Yume Kojo because all the info was locked in Japanese and nobody knew how to find it. I had searched for a long long time and pretty much gave up only to accidentally stumble over it. It’s also much much easier to just recycle the same story about Super Mario Bros. 2 get 6-7 million clicks and make a fortune off of it. But I was kind of surprised and disappointed at how few people were interested in an actual compelling story that no one had ever seen before. Instead sadly it seems like the majority of gamers just like to repeat the same “omg wtf lol” kind of thing over and over again. There seems to be a strong strain of whatifism. “Like duuude, what if the lost levels were blah blah blah” that’s fine I suppose but I was very let down at how few people were interested and engaged in finding out these things because I thought since we’d all grown up absorbing this new kind of technology that we’d all also taken and interest in it.
@@GTV-Japan I'm really glad you covered the actual event, not just the game or why it became Mario USA. Looking at some of the Japanese videos about Yume Kojo on RUclips, it seems like most of the videos have relatively few views. It's pretty strange how such a big event has become so obscure. I was lucky to have visited Japan almost on a yearly basis as a kid, so I'm bummed out that I totally missed this event.
I HAVE Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic! for the Famicom Disk System and I wish they could remake or repackage it for new gen like Mario gets! Didn't they also have an agreement for "All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros."? I have that game as well!! 😮😮😮😮
The next big event is mentioned in the video Yokohama yes 89 but after that there was a another world expo in Osaka in 1990 but the focus was agricultural then a world expo in Aichi in 2005. The world expo will return to Osaka 2025! There are smaller demonstrations that go on annually usually on a much smaller scale
@@GTV-Japan I would like to say even though I'd be a middle-aged man by that time, I'd still love to visit a big blowout festival about the FUTURE and, more importantly, how that future relates to the kids of today. The fact that it was a media house made it super presentable and carnival like. Using Carnival and the various World Expos as a basis for the event was a stroke of genius, and it's sad that the head man couldn't live to see the 2000s and all that groundwork really start to blossom.
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A small portion of this video at the 3:35 mark was removed because it displeased RUclips's computers.
It read...
"His role as an executive would, on occasion, lead him to travel around the world in search of interesting and entertaining stories that could be brought home. In March, 1984, Haruo Shikanai traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the world famous Mardi Gras festival: Carnival. He did not come alone. A large camera crew, along with on-air talent, producers and some executives accompanied him on the trip. Witnessing the wonderful time everyone was having, an idea began to take shape.
What if Japan had a Carnival of their own?"
What the heck did RUclips find offensive about that?
Ya got me.
Think you could upload the original version with that part on somewhere like Archive?
It’s in full on Odysee!
@@GTV-Japan Ah, okay, cool beans.
I kind of wish we had a dorama about a kid in rural Japan doing anything they can to attend Yume Kojo.
That would be a funny idea!
Did you know, in Yakuza 0 on PS4 which is set in the late 1980s; one of the night clubs is renamed to Maharaja for only that entry in the series. There are also vending machines called “Dream Machines” which you can win items from.
In all other entries in the Yakuza series, the same club is called something else.
Get out! Now to be fair maharaja was used for other stuff at that time. There’s an ad I found but didn’t use that had maharaja as a club and other stuff but still that is very cool. I know the ps4 is still pretty new but I’ll have to pick one up someday and check that out!
This was strangely moving. I felt like I was there even though I lived halfway across the globe and was but a toddler at the time. I think it's just the way the people of Japan at the time really embraced the hope and vision of the future. I don't know, but this was excellent work. Thank you for your time creating and sharing this!
You’re welcome! And there’s always going to be events like this in the future. Just like the next expo in 2025!🎭
@@GTV-Japan Well, we got something to look forward to.
The site of the 70expo is still there with a museum. Cool stuff actually
@@GTV-Japan I wonder how different their vision of the 21st Century will be this time.
Yeah, I was feeling nostalgic for something I didn't even know existed until a few years ago.
Fantastic. A director’s cut of one of the greatest episodes of a great webseries. Cheers GTV 🏆
Yep. Wow. Mmhmm. I think that’s the best way to put it. Thanks for the high praise! 🎭
Great Video as Always
I used to think that Yume Kojo was some kind of Anime Series back when I found out that was basis for the Game that later became Super Mario 2 back in the Early 2000's until I saw the Original Version of this Video back in 2016
Yes. I always felt that way too. And when I found the anmitsu hime episode I was going crazy because I though she would meet imajin in the episode. Unfortunately it didn’t happen. But as you know I plant seeds in videos that bloom later on and there are at least 3 here that may answer the question as to where imajin is these days.
I'm not kidding when I say that this may be my new favorite video on RUclips. Words cannot express how much I wish I could've experienced Yume Kojo in the flesh. It literally sounds like the greatest event in history to me. If time travel were real and somebody asked me when and where I wanted to go, I'd be like, mid-1987, Tokyo, please, so I can attend Yume Kojo. ;) (Osaka would be fine too, of course, but I'd pick Tokyo of the two, simply because I'd have easy access to places like '80s Akihabara and such when not attending the event, which would be super awesome to see all on its own!)
It's positively CRIMINAL that more people don't talk about this event, so I don't think I can overstate how much I appreciate the extreme thoroughness and attention to detail of both your previous video and this one.
Since viewing your last video, I've collected a few Yume Kojo-related items -- a telephone card, an uchiwa fan that plays "It's a Small World" as you swing it, and a necklace as a gift for a friend. I really, really want to buy one of the masks, though -- I've been keeping an eye on Yahoo Japan Auctions for one, and checking a lot of old antique shops and such in places like Nakano Broadway.
Not the same, though, as experiencing the event first-hand. But this video really is like the next best thing. Thank you so much for making it!
Hey! Good to see you back my friend! You should look into buying one direct from Italy. They still exist! Anyway yeah it’s sad it’s not more well known and strange no one talks about it other than to explain super Mario 2. Which is interesting but there’s so much more. There’s soooooooo much technology and programs that were seen here and never seen again. A lot of it I’d consider lost. I have a magical romance card but how can I ever read the data on it? That program probably doesn’t exist anymore. Ditto the info kiosks and the robot janken game thing I show after super game z. It’s like a pink monitor with kids sitting around some kind of keyboard. Anyway the closest thing I’d say is Osaka expo 25 and I swear I will be there! They are Going to open the maglev that goes Tokyo to Osaka in 70 minutes or so!! Unbelievable!
@@GTV-Japan Maybe I'll see you there! Because, yeah, provided I'm still in Japan at that time (which I have EVERY intention to be!), I ain't gonna miss it. ;)
Cool! Obviously I don’t have an date set yet but I have a long vacation every September so I might go then to beat the heat
Great vid, as always. Interesting context for video game (and entertainment in general) history. This is far and beyond the usual Mario USA stuff on RUclips. This era feels very unique and optimistic.
Thanks for like the video and being here day one! Even though retro is the buzzword online I admire futurism much more. Especially a bright optimistic one, not dark and dystopian.
@@GTV-Japan That's how we felt during the 80's.
We can still feel that way! Just keep a positive outlook and spread it everywhere you go.
Seriously such a fantastic video. A certain historian covered the video game that came out of this. They only said this was a means for Fuji to talk about their upcoming shows and did NOT mention how this was meant to be a celebration of imagination. Even now, I cannot find anything about this event with a google search as it seems all people care about is Doki Doki Panic because of how it became Super Mario Bros. 2 in the US. Super Game Z looks like so much fun. I hope something like this happens again! Great work here again!
Thanks I appreciate the support then now and always! Even in Japanese there isn’t much more info, mostly about the band. That’s why I took it upon myself to get the answers. Thankfully Fuji preserved the info very well at the time and the trick was just to find that. There will be more about Fuji and the post YK world coming in a video someday and when I get that done I hope you’ll enjoy that too! 🎭🎭🎭
That description of Super Game Z adds even more layers to Ryo having the Outrun arcade machine as his car in Sega All Stars Racing Transformed. It was potentially a Yume Kojo reference on top of everything else reference-y about it, amazing.
Yeah. Certainly!
Please don’t ever stop making videos! You’re a true treasure to us slightly older weebs
Thanks! I still have a few years left in the tank so don’t worry. 🎭
I agree
As a child I always adored festivals and amusement parks and this seems like this would have been amazing to attend. This past week I went to a local amusement park for the first time in ages and it astonished me how fast my anxiety disappeared and I felt like a kid again in all the best ways.
That’s great to hear. Not that we need to feel specific nostalgia but to just let go and enjoy the moment, like kids do is the best therapy I can think of. Have a great weekend 🎭
Since your first Yume Kojo video, I've been searching every corner of the internet for the Yume Kojo carnival masks featured thoughout the event. Sadly, I still haven't found any.
Oh I have one!! They are still made! All they did was import them from Italy!! I’ll dig it up and look for a company or address
@@GTV-Japan Oooh, nice if you do!
I loved the original video and shared it with everyone, and this makes it better in every way. I feel like you have left no stone unturned, and I really appreciate you going the extra mile to show what it was really like being there at such a momentous event.
I can't help but think that some of the elementary school kids in that 3D theater could be the same people that brought today's Miku hologram concerts to fruition...
I’d have to say that’s a good possibility! Thanks for the support then and now. And we will see Fuji as a topic again in the future I guarantee that! 🎭
Hey man just discovered your channel recently. Your channel and content is very underrated tbh. Please continue the great work and hope you grow into bigger heights. You deserve way more subs and views than what you're getting now.
Thank you! I am already onto the next topic. And the next after that. We will
See where it goes but honestly I would
Make the same videos for an audience of 10 or a million. I just enjoy it and enjoy when others find it. Have a great weekend 🎭
I'm always blown away by not only how well put together your videos are, but also by how darn good of a storyteller you are.
Thanks, Cole! I’m always happy to hear that. This one took extra time to make sure it was extra good. But like all videos I make them on the train going back and forth to work, and just take it seriously until it gets done ✅
I remember reading an interview that you did with Retro Injection and how you explained how you were rejected by several "big name" RUclipsrs who weren't interested before deciding you'll just make the video yourself. If you didn't happen to find that book, Gaijilionare TV wouldn't exist and the story of Yume Kojo '87 event would likely fade into obscurity, aside from the mind-blowing gamer fact regarding Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros 2/USA.
I wasn't expecting you to remake the video but I'm glad you did, it's a lot better than the original version. Thank you for all your hard work presenting and documenting Japanese pop cultural history.
That’s true. At the time I discovered RUclips I would have assumed someone would have some info but no. When I found the info I had no channel. So I tried to find someone who was big and could spread the word. No one of any big size replied and I can kind of understand why. When you have someone emailing you out of the blue claiming to have secret info about Doki Doki panic. What would you think it was?! The only channel that replied was only 1600 subscribers which I thought was big at the time. That channel doesn’t even exist anymore and I can’t even recall the name. Some American in Thailand. He told me to take a hike basically. At the time I was just going to make one video and be done but it didn’t end up that way. That’s for sure. Thanks for the support
@@GTV-Japan of course, you always strive to make good content
Cheers!
The most amazing thing on display? Frankly, the work put into it, I'm always amazed at way things run on the backstage to keep them smooth and the excellent work that went into making it possible.
And the 360° experience, sounds chilly!
Excellent video.
I wonder how all the tv screens were syncronized.
The documents I have show the backstage setup. But I didn’t include it because it’s just a white box with hundreds of cables coming out of it and didn’t look like anything anyone would comprehend. But it’s basically a few video disc players set to random. That all it says and beyond that. No idea. 🎭
What’s funny is every photo has nobody wearing a coat. But then again it was august and there were 1000s of people indoors so it was probably a great break from the heat!
@@GTV-Japan Ah, the white box... Even worse than the black box that cloaks itself in the shadows. The white box shows itself readily while revealing nothing, taunting even moreso! 😂
I can't believe the caption of setting it to random, unless they ran into issues. The still picture at 25:44 shows a complex gradient that would be tough to pull off if the screens were even clustered vertically together, which could be assumed with the 3 screen tall dancing people in the video shots. The video shot, with repetition of objects, makes me hypothesize not every screen had a unique image, but with clever multiplexing to switch between the video disc inputs, could create the illusion as the 3 tall picture could be swapped to an adjacent stack displaying something else. I am guestimating 8 to 12 lassr disc systems, with the static picture mentioned above. The disc players would solve any issue with syncing with something like vcr tapes, which was what I was thinking at first.
Now I wonder if they were arcade video cd's, or video laserdiscs...
I have a list of all the machines used and laserdisc was not mentioned. Video discs and videotape are mentioned but it would probably be beta cam or super vhs at the least, it doesn’t say. When I worked in TV it was always betacam. Video disc could be vcd or something else proprietary. Who knows?!
Your original video about this is, and I'm not exagerating, one of my favorite pieces of documentary ever. Just saw you reuploaded a new version and I can't wait to watch it again. Thank you for this, again!
Thanks! I’d like to think of that as the “gamer version” and this as the “history channel version” 🎭🎭🎭
@@GTV-Japan Oh so it's got Bigfoot and ancient aliens? 👀👀 jkjk
Yeah. Atlantis is still around too. Nothing but good memories.
@@GTV-Japan Got the difference :) watched your new version, along with the 2016 one again, and share it already with friends, who were also impressed. it's going to sound weird maybe, but tears come out of my eyes often when watching this...
Thanks. It was a challenge to take the same topic yet make it somehow different ya know?
Bubble Economy/late-Showa era Japan was something else
Tell me about it! They complain japan has been in recession since 1990 or so but I don’t see it. People here are still insanely rich! I have no idea where the money comes from.
@@GTV-Japan It can be weird how Japan works sometimes.
I remember *going* to Expo 85 (and Expo 86 in Vancouver BC), but I don't remember anything about it. Yume Kojo looks WAY more memorable. It's kind of cool to think that I was the target audience for it.
Wow!! How you go to both? The big draw for 85 was the Sony Jumbotron. I think the rest never made as big an impact
@@GTV-Japan well, mom is Japanese and happened to be visiting family in 1985 and then live in the PNW so it was easy to get to Canada. 1985 was when I got to play the Famicom and I was blown away by Excitebike and Mario Bros
Another amazing episode.
The world honestly owes you quite the debt for all the preservation, presentation, reporting, research, entertainment, and education you provide.
Thank you!
And thank you for supporting the channel with your viewership 🎭
@@GTV-Japan always!
What do you think was the most interesting, unusual or amazing thing on display at Yume Kojo?
you are the youtube GOAT!
You got me looking up the history of imagineering. I'd always thought of it as a Disney word before.
I think the events broadcast simultaneously on tv, and at each location with headsets were pretty great. It’s almost like today’s internet live-streaming, only more impressive due to the two physical locations.
For certain, the planning and cross involvement of all the attractions, programs, and “software” between multiple organizations is the most impressive thing of all.
It is possible fuji took the word from there, but the documents I have in Japanese made no mention of that.
@@GTV-Japan yeah a quick look up says the word was in use before Disney. They just popularized the term and and later tried to copyright it.
That was absolutely fabulous and a pleasure to watch, the additional footage and pictures are amazing! This felt like travelling back in time and getting to be a part of something special we didn't even know existed if it weren't for Super Mario Bros. 2. Well done sir!
Thanks Kevin!
Having learned a lot in recent years about Japan's bubble era and the still ongoing trauma stemming from its sudden end really adds a bittersweet edge to something like this.
Yes. Still ongoing! I blame the sales tax that started throwing things out of wack
Thank you so much for this video. It was incredibly interesting. I remember loving your first video about Yume Kojo, and I got the same feeling from this one.
Hey! Bård! My good man! Thanks for enjoying the video as always! This one was a challenge because how can you remake the same information into a different experience but I hope I have delivered in a way you could like. Have a great weekend 🎭
Thank you, GTV for once more, filling in a much needed gap in Western-Japanese Pop Culture fandom.
Yume Kojou is seriously peak Japan. It's a darn shame the Lost Decade went down like it did, because it seems very few Expos and events short of the Nagano '98 Olympics came close to the magic of this. But hey, that's economics for ya.
I'd love to see an alternate universe where we'd hear of events like Yume Kojou '94, '97, and Yume Kojou Millennium.
That would be cool! The problem is that Haruo Shikanai died soon after. His brother took over Fuji but it looks like he fell into some sort of scandal. Don’t know what happened there. And after that well I guess they had no interest in it. There are smaller events here and there but there will be expo 25 in Osaka in 3 years! I can’t wait
"the Lost Decade" what do you mean?
The lost decade is the recession, borderline depression that has been plaguing japan since the 90s. It’s more like 3 decades now. Things like a 10% sales tax certainly won’t fix it.
Holy...
Why is this all hidden behind the _simple_ game collaboration that Doki Doki Panic was? This looked amazing!
I can’t tell you but yeah it’s a shame. Even in Japan there isn’t much info. Thanks for watching 🎭
Best thing that could happen to my Saturday!
THANKS GTV!! ❤️
Enjoy and have a great weekend!🎭
I know this video is a year old now, but as a big fan of Super Mario Bros. 2 it's awesome to see more recognition to Dream Factory. Alot of people take Doki Doki Panic at face-value and just forget that the entire game is to promote an entire festival, so this is a great video to watch for those who want to know more about it.
Thanks for the support! 🎭
Honestly the amount of marketing is the most intense part to me. Bands, renaming TV shows, games, etc… I’ve never seen a non Japanese company go that far. The bands are the oddest part though. Not in a bad way just the most extreme.
Yeah at first it was hard to follow reading all this info because everything was renamed to be exactly the the same. Thanks for watching as always 🎭
Happy 35th anniversary to Yume Kojo!
It opened 35 years ago today!🎭
Man, some of the activities portrayed in this event feels way ahead of their time.
My personal favorite is discovision 360 but it’s clearly the most out of date. Just look at the WWE Titantron these days or Times Square or wherever with a giant led wall. However with a retro appeal I could see an array of old SDTVs running something like that and being popular. Thanks for watching!🎭
@@GTV-Japan Well, that's the beauty of vaporware.
This is terrific! I'm glad you revisited the Yume Kojo story; the original is my favorite video of yours. This one gives even more texture to a passing moment in time.
Great! I’m glad you enjoyed it!🎭
Wow, so awesome to see! Your Yume Kojo video was the first one I watched 😌
Oh hey there old friend! Yes I remember when you came onboard! Good to see you back🎭
@@GTV-Japan You too (even if you never left xD)
Yume Kojo never fails to be super interesting AND inspirational. The fact so much of what the event saw of the future actually came true..
Pretty much all of it actually
I can't believe all of this was hidden behind my favorite NES game Super Mario Bros. 2 all this time. When I was playing it in 1991 I was in grade 2 and never in my wildest dreams would I have guessed this amazing festival was behind it all. What a fantastic idea it was, to nurture and inspire the dreams of the next generation. Loved the sentiment there at the end of the video. We are all living in that world now, we just need to make sure all of it is in service to the greater good of humanity, not humanity in service of IT. A video for the ages, well done mate, definitely one of your best so far
Cheers for watching the whole thing. It really is an amazing story and still so unbelievable that it’s not more well known especially when everyone knows what the name Yume Kojo is but not the event itself.
Did you know Super Mario Bros. 2 was actually originally a Japanese game called Doki Doki Panic?
JK Amazing video GTV Japan. Great video as always! You have incredible content.
Oh. You almost had me there! 🎭
I’ve been recommending the original video to people as recently as a few weeks ago, though I haven’t watched it since it first came out. I was considering a rewatch anyway after all this time, but I feel like I will only appreciate the improvements if I see them both back to back. This is not a problem I mind having. When the subject comes up, I briefly describe it as a “World’s Fair like event put on by a Japanese television network to promote their programming while serving as a preview of the emerging millennium.” And then just link them to your old video, It’s criminally underdescribing it, but I always fear to say more would to risk errors and you covered and explained the event so well!
That video will stay up. I won’t remove it but it’s more for the casual person who is more into just games. Less about Japanese modern history or culture. This is the video I always wanted to make but if I did it this way first back then, I doubt anyone would have understood it. Anyway thanks for sharing and supporting the channel!!! 🎭
@@GTV-Japan I finally watched it, and boy was it fantastic, even more so than the earlier video, which I still consider valuable. I was born in the US around the time this event took place, so it's fascinating having grown up both amidst the waning phase of the technology that was current at the time Yume Kojo, (analog broadcast TV, 8 bit video games, and DOS based computers were common sights for me) while also entering my teens and adulthood living first hand the world Yume Kojo optimistically forecast, including the act I'm participating in by watching and responding to this video.
I'm curious, in the earlier video, you seemed to more regularly use the "Dream Factory" interpretation of the name, which is the version I have, over the years, seen associated when explaining the tie-in game for Famicom Disk System, whereas in this video you use "Dream Machine" seemingly universally. Based on period material I saw both in your OG video and in this one, it seems like they used the "Dream Machine" and "Dream Factory" styling interchangeably, which one would you say is more accurate to what they originally intended?
In the old video I only used dream factory once offhandedly and kind of in a snarky way just do everyone knew what I was talking about. Fuji never ever used the words dream factory and always used dream machine. If you asked anyone what Yume Kojo meant in English they’d say dream machine. I also prefer that over factory because it shows you’re in the small minority who are “in the know” as opposed to the millions who just repeat the same story about the “super Mario 2 reskin” or what have you that’s been on every site forever. I really thought it would change a lot of mind and perceptions about what happened back then but it turns out a lot of people don’t care and just want to hear the same stories they already know. So when you say dream machine to someone and they say oh no you’re wrong it’s dream factory the game that became Mario 2 that promoted Fuji tvs fall lineup, you can walk away knowing your that much smarter.
@@GTV-Japan Cool! I think it says a lot to the perceived prestige of the event that Nintendo was willing to put AAA resources into a game featuring characters they didn't even own the rights as a way to become involved, even if they didn't host any pavilions or exhibits on-site. I think that regardless of concerns over US market reception of the FDS version of Super Mario Bros 2, Nintendo not owning the characters for a game they spent so much time and money creating would have made something similar to the Famicom cartridge release of Super Mario USA an eventuality as a way for Nintendo to publish their own game without needing to pay royalties for arguably out-of-date characters while also promoting an event which had already came and went by then.
It was more of Fuji using Nintendo. They then made inroads into games which was just to set their broadcast empire up overseas
I used to recommend that video any time the whole SMB2/DDP thing comes up, definitely covered everything you could ever want to know about the festival that lead to the original Japanese game! guess I can update my link and send them here instead?! the concept reminded me of something cool I got to see as a kid just a few years prior, the brainchild of steve wozniak of apple, it was called the US Festival, and it coupled several of the hottest musical acts of the early 80s with the latest and greatest in technology of the day! videogames, computers, musical equipment it was all featured at inside of a tent off to the side from the main stage where all the action was it definitely had some of the same general ideas!
Yeah sure go ahead! The US festival was also very fascinating and probably the greatest music festival until lollapalooza
@@GTV-Japan oh yeah it definitely blew me away at four years old, so many freaking people there! so I can kinda get the scope fo what they were trying to do with yume kojo, even though it only ran for about a weekend in 82 and 83. but I will definitely send people to this one if SMB2/DDP comes up, for sure.
Looking back at the lineups it’s amazing how they put together a mix of the most popular bands of the time with up and coming groups who would headline or be hall of famers later on. Not a single one hit wonder on the list
This felt like a 10-minutes video. Great job, as always
Thanks I’m glad you liked it!!🎭
Huge upload, one of my favorite videos of all time
Thanks!🎭
In Brazil is commemorated Carnaval. Great vídeo!!!
Thank you! 🎭
Great sequel to the OG video!
Thank you! 🎭
I came to this video barely knowing anything about this event and now I feel like it was one of the great 21st century shows 😮
I hope you enjoyed it! Thanks for being one of the first to see it🎭
I loved the original video, and this sweetened it so much more.
Thanks I’m glad you liked it. I thought the response would be positive, people have asked for a while but i finally found enough extra footage to make it work. Have a good weekend 🎭
I now feel so bereft that I didn't get to go to Japan for the first time until nine years after Yume Kojo! But, I then ask myself how much I really could have enjoyed it, having only been 6 years old for most of 1987, hahahaha.
You still got there during the good old days though!
Beautiful Video, great tribute to the 35th Anniversary.
Nice to know there was a smaller Yume Kojo 88, too
It’s nice because really Hokkaido was. It as connected as it is now and it gave that area a chance to see Yume Kojo as well as extending the life of the exhibits.
@@GTV-Japan That is very nice
It's interesting seeing as how insular Japan is there's probably millions of little nuggets like this that no one else in the world will ever know about. I say that to say thank you for this!
Thanks Eric!
Dude you are telling me that this carnival, had tech that until these last 5 years had been accessible to everyone, incredible, this must be an interesting marketing studio case
I think it is!
The Yume Kojo video was one of my favourites so thank you for this expanded release. 👍
Cheers!
Best gaming related channel on the tube. Many thanks giving us a view into not only the current topic at hand, but also that of contemporary japan of that time. Fantastic work
Thanks Mark!!
The day after I was born, a 44-day celebration began, in Japan. This video makes me nostalgic and yearn for something I never attended or was even near. It's nothing I could remember. But this is my third time watching this video. It's hard to pit being a father and husband against wanting to go back in time to when SMB2 was radish picking. I love the history of this event.
Never go back. Never forget that past but always carry the ball as far as you can go.
@@GTV-Japan I could never choose to go back. I just miss it. They say time flies when you get older, but looking back...1990-2001 flew by, too.
Really outstanding. The original Yume Kōjō video was already excellent, still this one knocks it out of the park!
No doubt this took some time.
Thank You!
You’re welcome! Yeah it took time but really it was always my plan to come back and revisit the topic. Just waiting for enough found footage to pop up. Thanks for watching 🎭
@@GTV-Japan
Definitely a worthy persuit!
It's pretty terrifying for me to think that such a huge event in Japan has so little surviving media from it outside of, well, a certain Famicom Disk System title.
I know! Why weren’t all those hologram setups etc preserved? It’s the same folly that befalls much media. It’s time is up and is “old” so scrap it and move onto the next. I did find some interesting things that were saved that I’ll reveal later. But it’s only a few scant pieces sadly. Take care my friend until then.
@@GTV-Japan I'll look forward to the later reveal! I'm kinda curious about the prospect of any Sega material that may have not seen any wide release outside of this event. Well, I don't exactly know how Super Game Z could get MAME dumped or thrown in an arcade1up or anything, but I mean, it's Sega, the guys who made Maraca controllers and fishing rod controllers, they must have had some more stuff there.
Yeah I have no idea how that would work. It’s all camera controlled so there aren’t any graphics per se.
Good timing thanks Ken....carry on.....good to see your doing well sir.
Thank you!
Wow. Fantastic video. I thoroughly enjoyed your original Yume Kōjō video, and this follow-up was way beyond what I could've hoped for. So comprehensive yet easy to digest, this video surely becomes the de facto resource for those asking "What was Yume Kōjō?"
Thanks Neil ! As I was making it I realized a lot of people already knew about YK from the first video so I still think of the fist one was “what was” the new is more like “this is Yume Kojo “ but still for many it’s their first time either way so sure I say this is the new standard
Thanks for watching of course 🎭
@@GTV-Japan Thank you for making it! I'm glad I subscribe to your channel: I really wouldn't want to have missed out. As a big Mario fan, both parts are essential viewing. 👍
Thanks I appreciate the support. The story I basically over. There nothing more I know about. There were some parts cut out but that was just about the corporate structure of Fuji which dragged things down. And ultima was the game on display in Mach vision because it was by pony canyon who Fuji owned. But there are three “seeds” I planted in this video that I will come back to later and connect with this video. So someday you’ll see it 🌷
@@GTV-Japan Oh wow, really? That's neat. I'll look forward to seeing that in my RUclips notifications sometime, then. 😀👍
Keep up the great work, dude!
Great video, this event managed to beat the hearts of all Japan and give the future of software through a dream machine. Thanks imagineers🎆
"As those of elementary school age in 1987 would be the first generation in the 21st century to become adults, the end result should be a vision of the future that inspired young minds."
So yeah. The reason all my fellow elder millennials and I are on this video talking about how cool it looks is because *we are literally the target market!* And like *everything else* involved in this twenty-three ring extravaganza, they did a *really* good job! 😴💭🏭❤👍
Millennials? I don’t think those were born until the end of the 90s! Well, whether Gen X or Y or Millennial or whatever the Reiwa kids are called abroad, we’re all here now! I was inspired! I hope you were too
Oh, absolutely! The folks I was talking about as "elder millennials" were born in the late Shōwa period (late '70s/early '80s), so we're sometimes called "the generation that was growing up when the Internet was." In other words, just the ones they had in mind when making Yume Kojo. Thanks!
We need such an event so badly at the moment.
It seems like the whole world just looks back instead of forward, holding onto a past that wasn't sustainable in the slightest. We just administer and not create anymore, no real vision for the future a nation or the world population could work towards.
As a kid from the 90s, I can't stand the resignation of people today.
Back in the 90s, we always woke up in wonder what the next day could offer in technology advances or opportunities.
After the mid-2000s most people lost this mindset and it seems, at least here in germany, many people just want back to the old days of limitless energy with pollution and oppression of minorities to support their status quo.
No one can imagine a bright and coloful future anymore, especially if you consider art as a representation of the Zeitgeist and look at the current dystopian nightmares it depicts.
I want to look forward again, try to create a better world for everyone and bring joy to the faces of the younger generation, so they can start dreaming of what's to come...
I couldn’t agree more!
👏 amazing speech. 👏
I'm always surprised that you don't have more subscribers, been watching your videos for a while now and find them so interesting.
Thanks! I don’t worry about the subscription count and just try to make what I like. I think eventually people who are interested will find it. Thanks for the support! 🎭
Sooner or later when Epcot Center puts a South Korea Pavillion, Warner Bros takes over the Tokyo Disney Parks and a Disney Park in South Korea becomes a rollercoaster nut's paradise.
Omg yes! Thank you for making this!
You’re welcome 🎭
It's so cool to get the full story of this event. Thanks!
You’re welcome 🎭
With its carnival masks, Yume Kojo has the air of something in a creepypasta. This lofty, ambitious vision for an exposition, now so obscure, recovered only in grainy archival footage and photos. It would play a similar role that Hands Across America played in Jordan Peele's _Us._ I have to imagine something traumatic happened, got hushed-up.
What is a creepy pasta? Is that like spaghetti for Halloween? I do remember hands across America! Lionel Richie, Robin Williams and C3PO locking arms somewhere in Kansas.
2 more videos and (until today) I've finished the GTV channel. Don't know if I should wait and charge the X Buster, or finish the videos. Again, Love your channel!
We’ll finish it off on august 26 with the next video and when the one after that is done, it’s half done now, I’ll let you see it as a preview first in the world! Just get back to me in a week or 2
How do you manage to put out such quality content so consistently?
I don’t know but I just do what I can while I’m on break from work, and just make it happen. Thanks for watching as always 🎭
Late 80's Japan was a magic land.
Streets paved with gold!
Great timing as I was replaying super mario bros 2 usa
Finally a video actually about Yume Kojo and not rambling about Smb2
I know! Don’t you just hate that?
You got my Doki in a panic. Great video. Very definitive.
Thanks I’m glad you liked it 🎭
Why can't amazingly fun events like this happen where I live?
That was an amazing watch, really well done and documented, thanks a lot! :)
You’re welcome 🎭
And a Tokusatsu Cameo from Ambassador Magma,Lion-Maru,Gekkō Kamen 🤯
Yes that’s all true. I’m running a second line of Videos that will Cover these in some manner on the future
Well, I know what to do now: make a travel/space machine.
Hope I can find myself on the video after this 🤔
Thanks for the video and the nostalgia feeling 👍
You’re welcome
There's a high-pitched blip at 13:41.
I love this more in-depth look at Dream Machine, tho. It's definitely a neat piece of history I wouldn't want forgotten. Thanks for the new video. :)
Hey no problem. As for some of the sounds that’s just the BGM it goes up and down and I just let it roll
@@GTV-Japan Oh, okay. :)
Maybe cuz I'm watching it on my phone, it sounded extra weird. Sounded like when there is an error in an audio file caused during file transfer.
No way. I screened this thing 10 times and watched it after uploading three times too. The sound is always a bit louder with headphones on though that’s for sure
Thank you very much for this amazing documentation.
You’re welcome!🎭
I can imagine systems that can allow people to interact with there favourite animated characters (I am pretty sure they already exist)
Oh I’m sure of it
That Princess anime devoting an episode to advertising this festival reminds me of those ABC sitcoms from the 90's all having episodes where the cast goes to Disney World. That Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro exhibit looks like it was great fun, and I wonder if the Nezumi-Otoko suit smelled like the character does. Okay, probably does after months of summer heat, especially from the inside.
Oh I’d rather not imagine haha. Anmitsu hime had a crossover with Kitaro later that year too. For some reason the episodes are sure hard to find though. Yes I remember when The Mouse bought ABC. Suddenly everyone visited California. Nothing beats the Brady Bunch ep. at King’s Island however.
@@GTV-Japan I once worked at some pop up advertisement for Cartoon Network, and I was basically begging to be in one of the mascot costumes, but they had people already for that. I snuck away at the end and put the Dexter head on just to see what it was like. But I wish they did. I would have had a ball being Cow.
Hah really? I must have missed that. Though I do remember you could play headkickers on their site once long ago.
@@GTV-Japan I wound up working a Hi C promotional booth. I lost that hat and shirt in the basement, though. Anyway, I would have gotten overheated if I was in one of those things, anyway. Plus you're supposed to remain silent, and I'd be too tempted to do one of my cartoon character impersonations at the time.
Ohh duh a pop up shop. I was thinking of a pop up ad 😂
Really great update to the original. One of the few channels these days where I get to learn something new everytime. Plus refreshing to avoid the video game altogether.
Yes! You understand!! Time to get away from gaming every now and then. Thanks for watching 🎭🎭
@@GTV-Japan For such a massive event it seems so odd that it was only the game that has become widely known. The whole thing looks amazing. Like Epcot on steroids. Was very strange to see the word "Imagineers" used outside of a Disney context as well.
Yeah that’s what I don’t get. Even in japan there’s scant info other than it happened
@@GTV-Japan That's just so weird as it seemed to be an incredibly complex undertaking and so very advanced and all that's really remembered is the game; and you could argue that's only because it was turned into a Mario one.
Yeah. That’s all.
Thank you very very much for this video. ;^)
Your efforts are highly appriciated. You managed to capture the spirit if this event oerfectly. All the respect to you.
Wish you all the best and success in life.
Thanks again for sharing. :o)
Thanks for taking the time to watch it! Have a good day!!
@@GTV-Japan Honestly it is a wonderful watch! Very entertainning.
Very immense work, 👏 good job. 👍
Thank you, you too.
Watched the original but here to enjoy this still
Great! There’s lots new things to see
Very interesting story, I would have loved to have been there but I was just born and didn't live in Japan
Yeah same here. So I can’t hold that against ya! 🎭
It's honestly sad that we never got the original Doki Doki Panic in the US in its original format due to Fuji TV owning the characters somehow (let alone any copyright situations). It would've been a nice game for the US to play in. And I wouldn't have minded an OVA of Yume Kojo's cast. Anyhow, thanks for the director's cut of this. It's always a blast to look at Yume Koujo and its history.
We have not seen the last of Imajin! I can assure you there’s still more life in him yet 🍒
GeGeGe no Kitaro also had a video game adaptation for the Famicom in Japan which had its property replaced with another entity in the West, having been revised into Ninja Kid on the NES.
Oh 😱😱😯😯 that's interesting!! We would never really know about these things without research and first hand experience about these exotic things of years gone by!! 😮😮😮😮
Great work. I wonder if the imagineer mask, first promoted in Summer 1986, inspired JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure which started with a story featuring a cursed mask in January 1987.
That’s possible. Various parts of classical European culture are well regarded by japan so it may have also been done independently too.
@@GTV-Japan Also, weird coincidence that Anmitsu Hime was used to promote the event and ended up getting a game on the Mark III released exactly when the event started (July 1987), but that the official game of the event instead released on Famicom only!
Yeah. Well I’m going to continue that branch in the future. It’s funny that anmitsu hime also got transformed into alex kidd outside of japan just like doki doki panic and Mario 2. Actually Alex Kidd in high tech world is kind of fitting because the joke of anmitsu hime is that they have modern tech despite living in the 1800s. But yeah rest assured this will get its own video at some time in the next year.
Well GTV Japan I Would Have To Say The Most Interesting Part Of Yume Kojo Is The Video Game And The Characters They Are Truly Incredible And Inspiring It's Both Honorable And Memorable And I Absolutely Love It.👍👍😎💖🎮🏆
Yup very inspiring 🎭
I've never wanted a time machine so much.
I love world's fairs, and this feels very much like one.
If I could time travel, two places I'd visit are Yume Kojo, and the 1964 New York World's Fair.
I had family who went to the worlds fair in 1939 and 1964! They told many many great stories about it. I love the general concept of the world of tomorrow and true progress.
@@GTV-JapanI've always loved the ideals of world's fairs. Hope for the future and uniting mankind.
But I've never been able to attend one. The last US fair was New Orleans, in '84, 7 years before I was born. My parents went, and my older brother even performed a violin recital there.
I collect souvenirs and memorabilia from fairs, though. Kinda vicariously experiencing them that way.
@video-luver769 Osaka is having one in 2025!!
Have you ever thought of doing videos like this for other festivals?
Like, your content is all video games, and I like that, but it would be interesting if you did some other content about just Japanese culture in general.
Yes I think expo 85 and yes 89 would be good topics. Expo 85 is where the Jumbotron debuted
15:30 OHHH So that's where the eurobeat albums come from! I never knew that.
The more you know 💫
That makes Doki Doki Panic this festival's advergame...
Been waiting for something this!
Wait no more!🎭
@@GTV-Japan time for some rewatching! Not that I haven't multiple times.
Didnt expect to see Lost Judgment main character singing
Expect the unexpected every time!🎭
Phenomenal Research!!!
Cheers!
Hey GTV. I changed my email and profile picture, but I made sure I resubscribed to my #1 favorite gaming documentary channel of all time!!!!
Great! I can’t forget my good friend Boodro!
@@GTV-Japan Thanks GTV! That means a lot. I'll always be around, my friend.
All right!
Great video as always GTV.
Thank you 🎭
I'm pretty sure GTV stands for "goat TV, the greatest it is " 😸
G is for gokujo a Japanese word that means of the highest quality 👍🏻
Wow! That must have been an epic time there.
I can only imagine
Fuji TV: We'll build our own Expo! With hookers, and blackjack.
Bender is that you?
really enjoyed this. Keep up the great work.
I played the game in 1987, but had no idea it was tied to such a large event until now. Even though I've been living in Japan for close to 2 decades, I haven't seen any retrospectives about Yume Kojo until I saw these videos. I wonder why this event and the original game are not mentioned more in Japan. It seems like Nintendo wants people to remember this as part of the Mario world rather than this other unique, one-off dream expo. Seeing some of the characters featured prominently in the Mario movie feels even stranger now.
There are no videos about Yume Kojo because all the info was locked in Japanese and nobody knew how to find it. I had searched for a long long time and pretty much gave up only to accidentally stumble over it. It’s also much much easier to just recycle the same story about Super Mario Bros. 2 get 6-7 million clicks and make a fortune off of it. But I was kind of surprised and disappointed at how few people were interested in an actual compelling story that no one had ever seen before. Instead sadly it seems like the majority of gamers just like to repeat the same “omg wtf lol” kind of thing over and over again. There seems to be a strong strain of whatifism. “Like duuude, what if the lost levels were blah blah blah” that’s fine I suppose but I was very let down at how few people were interested and engaged in finding out these things because I thought since we’d all grown up absorbing this new kind of technology that we’d all also taken and interest in it.
@@GTV-Japan I'm really glad you covered the actual event, not just the game or why it became Mario USA. Looking at some of the Japanese videos about Yume Kojo on RUclips, it seems like most of the videos have relatively few views. It's pretty strange how such a big event has become so obscure. I was lucky to have visited Japan almost on a yearly basis as a kid, so I'm bummed out that I totally missed this event.
That sounds cool but sorry you missed out!
I HAVE Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic! for the Famicom Disk System and I wish they could remake or repackage it for new gen like Mario gets! Didn't they also have an agreement for "All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros."? I have that game as well!! 😮😮😮😮
Yume kojo must've been something extraordinary to experience.
What was the equivalent that happened in years later,
The next big event is mentioned in the video Yokohama yes 89 but after that there was a another world expo in Osaka in 1990 but the focus was agricultural then a world expo in Aichi in 2005. The world expo will return to Osaka 2025! There are smaller demonstrations that go on annually usually on a much smaller scale
@@GTV-Japan I would like to say even though I'd be a middle-aged man by that time, I'd still love to visit a big blowout festival about the FUTURE and, more importantly, how that future relates to the kids of today.
The fact that it was a media house made it super presentable and carnival like. Using Carnival and the various World Expos as a basis for the event was a stroke of genius, and it's sad that the head man couldn't live to see the 2000s and all that groundwork really start to blossom.
The chief was apparently sickly his whole life so his condition was not a surprise. But much of that was revealed after his death