Anecdote 1997
“Even though we're behind schedule, everyone at KCE Japan has been obsessed with Mario Kart 64. On break everyone rushes over to snatch up a controller, and the people waiting grab a Sega Saturn 3D control pad and do "image training", mimicking the movements while they watch and wait their turn.”
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In 1997 Kojima said that, despite being behind schedule, everyone at KCE Japan was obsessed with Mario Kart 64: on breaks everyone rushed to grab a controller, and those waiting picked up a Sega Saturn 3D control pad and did “image training”, mimicking the movements while they watched and waited their turn.
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