Don Beebe Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 Rod, I noticed you posted a message in the old Forum asking Tecmo for some information about their Programmers...I watched the ending credits of TSB and noticed Akihiko Shimoji is the programmer of the game. I did a search for him on Yahoo and couldn't find much. I did notice that he also programmed Tecmo Soccer in 96'...so he may still be on the planet today.I E-Mailed Tecmo Inc. asking them if there was a way I could get in contact with Akihiko earlier today, and I am still waiting for a reply. If you know an E-Mail address that can get a response quickly from Tecmo, then go ahead and try as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokie05 Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 This has been one of my age-old tecmo questions, thinking they could answer so many everlasting questions. Please note that I brought this up first the other day on the attributes topic, then Rod STOLE IT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knobbe Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 Sorry for trying to answer your life long dream. If I actually get a programmer to answer questions because of that post I'll make you an award.... P.S. Actually the idea to post that was because of a conversation I had with TecmoTimes and the need to bump the locked topics of the top of that board.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looked Posted May 13, 2002 Share Posted May 13, 2002 I'm not trying to burst anyone's bubble, but has anyone considered that these japanese programmers probably don't speak English? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignarant Posted May 13, 2002 Share Posted May 13, 2002 there is a chance they dont, but theese are pretty smart guys, and from my experience alost everyone from over seas speaks english in some capicity it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokie05 Posted May 13, 2002 Share Posted May 13, 2002 exactlyDeion can translate for us, or he can go happy go jackey on the big white guy like a donkey eating a wafflewe'll let them choose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sois Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 any progress so far on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sois Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 oh yeah, one other thing... this Akihiko Shimoji guy, he was the programmer for monster rancher too. so i guess he could still be around at tecmo making things go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdtng51 Posted May 26, 2002 Share Posted May 26, 2002 this name... Akihiko Shimoji ....is the name of a god. Or at least a god of the gaming community. The man made Monster Rancher AND Tecmo Football??????? Unbelievable. The only name I can think up that surpasses him in Video Game Greatness is the one and only Will Wright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecmo-Mad-Brad Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 I just spoke to Larry Hutcherson who was hired by Tecmo mid 1989, and eventually worked a bit on TSB. He says he doesn't have contact anymore with the Japanese programmers from those days, but said Tecmo didn't treat the programmers very well, and eventually they lost their best programmers to other companies. He said this came not too long after TSB was released. That may be part of why Tecmo wouldn't have any info on how to track these guys down...it was not an amicable split. Slippery Nips and buck 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecmo-Mad-Brad Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 On a side onte, I forgot to get clarification if this was TSB or not, but he said there's a really subtle bug on the kickoff as its different between player 1 and player 2....the ball doesn't fly right or the same for player 2 when its kicked off, as it does for player 1 once its kicked. buck 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruddog Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Ya I found some issues with the kick off and specifically onsides in the assembly code... its part of the very hard for P2 to get the onsides kick problem. buck 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knobbe Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Tecmo music composer Keiji Yamagishi has started producing 8-bit type music again. He put together the music for Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super BowlHe operated under the aliases More Yamasan and K.Y. Jet. An interview with Keiji - http://koopa.tv/a-conversation-with-keiji-yamagishi/ Here are the albums - Retro Active Pt 1 - Retro Active Pt 1 - RemixedI believe he plans on make 3 of them. kevincabarello, buck and segathonsov 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knobbe Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Keiji Yamagishi just put out an album for his work on upcoming Japanese indie release Exile's Exithttp://store.bravewave.net/album/exiles-end-original-soundtrack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragu0012 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 On May 11, 2002 at 1:47 PM, Knobbe said: On July 11, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Tecmo-Mad-Brad said: On May 16, 2002 at 11:59 AM, sois said: I have tracked down Shimoji and the game director Tomie. I have interviewed them and I will be presenting the interview at Tecmo Madison Slippery Nips and segathonsov 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragu0012 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 The way they explained to me was that Tomie was primarily responsible for the aspects of the game that interest most of us the most… Such as why is Bo Jackson so damn good. Shimoji as the programmer was mostly responsible for making Tomie's vision a reality. segathonsov, Slippery Nips and Knobbe 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragu0012 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 And no, these guys don't speak English! The translating has been the biggest challenge. Slippery Nips and segathonsov 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecmo-Mad-Brad Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 19 hours ago, ragu0012 said: And no, these guys don't speak English! The translating has been the biggest challenge. That sucks. I have some pretty in-depth questions that wouldn't be easy to translate. Hutcherson who didn't work on the original TB (but a little on TSB) had a few interesting thoughts that I wish I could follow up on. There's multiple critical strategic ploys we use on the original TB that I always assumed were just the genius of those programmers.. He thought that stuff like invoking pass coverage help from the CPU, and the deal where I can get Karl mecklenberg/Steve McMichael/etc to be "unblocked" on a particular run play were actually glitches! A ton of my study on TB is based off this defensive reactions stuff.....so while it doesn't diminish any of that knowledge, it still makes me feel a tad empty to know that this mega important stuff might have just been the product of an accident! Talking to Hutcherson was like the Prometheus movie. I went for answers, but ended up with more questions. Hutcherson also said that the goal to appeal to everyone was to make it so the worst teams could compete fairly well in the game....but while I think that's somewhat true in the original TB, it seems like the level of disparity from best to worse is far greater in TSB. With evenly skilled tournament champion level players, could one of them routinely take New England and hang with the Bills, or 49ers??? I don't know enough about TSB, but it just seems that it would often be a whooping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragu0012 Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 9 hours ago, Tecmo-Mad-Brad said: Hutcherson also said that the goal to appeal to everyone was to make it so the worst teams could compete fairly well in the game....but while I think that's somewhat true in the original TB, it seems like the level of disparity from best to worse is far greater in TSB. With evenly skilled tournament champion level players, could one of them routinely take New England and hang with the Bills, or 49ers??? I don't know enough about TSB, but it just seems that it would often be a whooping. I think parity is important on TB because there are only 12 teams. But with 28 on TSB, there are more matchup options, so you can still find competitive matchups among the lower tier teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knobbe Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 On 1/23/2016 at 0:58 PM, ragu0012 said: The way they explained to me was that Tomie was primarily responsible for the aspects of the game that interest most of us the most… Such as why is Bo Jackson so damn good. Shimoji as the programmer was mostly responsible for making Tomie's vision a reality. Just great, looking forward to this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecmo-Mad-Brad Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 On 1/23/2016 at 0:58 PM, ragu0012 said: The way they explained to me was that Tomie was primarily responsible for the aspects of the game that interest most of us the most… Such as why is Bo Jackson so damn good. Shimoji as the programmer was mostly responsible for making Tomie's vision a reality. Based on the historical rosters and such of the original Tecmo, I gotta believe the 87 MNF game vs Seattle really put an indelible mark on them, in terms of how the decided to rate Bo. That was also his 1st year in the league, and he's was doing the unprecedented 2 sport deal. Torching Seattle in front of a national audience....and perhaps in Japan as well. Its no secret they were football fans...they had to have at minimum seen the highlites of that game of this guy playing pro football as a hobby.. Bo really do anything to change that perception going forward as they put together TSB either. buck 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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