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What were they thinking?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:16 am
by Mr. Seed
I only dip in to Junker HQ now and again these days and so there is a definate chance that this has previoulsy been discussed. In a similar vein I'd like to know how many did'nt know about it...

On the MSX version (and therefore possibly the original version) of Snatcher along with other radom pieces of english profanities littered throughout the game, when metal is performing scans, amongst the technical jargon is clearly reads:
FUCK KONMI, and in the text at the right...CHECK CHECK FUCK. Other entries read Evry Woman I kno, CYBER PUNK ADV. , Mateui Aoki, Kuniko Akiyama and so on.
I can understand hiding family or staff member names in there, but Fuck Komni? Why bother when at the time, this game wasn't intended for western eyes.... and still isnt really. Seems like a strange in joke. but... whatever floats yer boat.

SeedCreast...out!

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:24 am
by 87th
Maybe they thought the comments would be more criptic and harder to spot if they were in English? Just a thought.

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:29 am
by Mr. Seed
Sure of course. I know that there are hidden tit-bits of info throughout all kojima games, and all pieces of entertainment media. It just baffles me why someone would bother, just for fun I guess... it makes it even stranger to think that no-one might even be able read it, especially with the speed is scrolls at - just someones personal joke.

But the real question is... had anyone noticed it?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:58 am
by 87th
I think someone's mentioned it to me, before, even though I never noticed it myself.

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:46 pm
by Missing
I suppose for the time, Kojima's message was validated by Konami's treatment of him and his ideas.

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:42 am
by HorseFactory
Missing wrote:I suppose for the time, Kojima's message was validated by Konami's treatment of him and his ideas.
Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm not very well up on Kojimas history, was it to do with them rushing the original version out or something, or just generally not appreciating his ideas that were before their time?

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:53 am
by 87th
I know they canceled Lost WARld, but that's all I've heard about them treating his work poorly before Snatcher was released.