Kojima admired that Yukinobu Hoshino continued to produce ambitious,…

“I felt great potential in the medium”

“These games had their own worlds and stories. I felt a certain authorial quality in them.”

Kojima recalled that twenty-five years earlier he had incorporated a story and a message into video games when both were regarded as unnecessary. With the rise of mobile games used to kill time, he saw Minagawa’s literary activity at age eighty-two as the baton to receive. He promised to continue as he is even after turning eighty and to instill his memes into video games.

“I like films, but decided to make games, and that's why I think my work is a bit unique.”

“This has been important to me, because Konami has often told me my ideas are too crazy, and there's been dark times where the warm letters I receive from fans were all that sustained me.”