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RUMOR - Japanese dev's sister kidnapped to make him stop working with Nintendo

by rawmeatcowboy
11 November 2015
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The following interview snippet comes from John Szczepaniak's book, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers Volume 2. Names are redacted for legal reasons and Szczepaniak interviewed the source under the agreement of complete anonymity.

- dev says his younger sister was kidnapped
- a game company hired some gangsters to do it
- they did this in order to make the dev stop cooperating with Nintendo
- in Japan there's a perception that "play" is bad, the opposite of hard work
- amusement-oriented industries inevitably become infested with evil companies and ties to the underworld
- the only companies that have been able to do business while staying clean are probably Nintendo and Namco

The story continues on and is just as crazy as what you've read above. If you're wondering what company is involved here, you'll have to go hunting for that info on your own. There are more details in the full article that could point you to an answer.

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