“I used to carry a video camera too, but now I just use my phone. Back in the day, I used to be into taking videos.”
Kojima said he used to carry a video camera because he was into taking videos, but by 2025 he was using his phone to do so.
“Ever since middle school or thereabouts, for the longest time, I had wanted to make movies.”
“I keep it in my bag everyday and take it with me on business trips, too. ... My kids had sports day at school. It had to be light and with autofocus ... The ease of use was a deciding factor for me.”
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'm very interested in the new format of game that will appear on there and that's what I want to take on.”
“It became a habit which I still have. ... I'd think up stories because I had so much time alone.”