Source · Interviews
Yoji Shinkawa – 2001 Developer Interview
shmuplations.com · 2001 · supports 2 entries
Limits of this source
This is an interview with Shinkawa, not with Kojima: everything said about Kojima here is his collaborator’s testimony. Unofficial English translation; the Japanese original has not been seen. The entries on Shinkawa’s hiring and on the origin of the Cyborg Ninja come from other sources and are not duplicated.
The 2 entries it supports
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“When Kojima first announces something, everyone thinks he's joking. But then he starts making it just as he said and we realize after the fact, "oh, he was serious." (laughs) [...] If you leave him to his devices though he'll actually do the crazy stuff he says.”
Yoji Shinkawa Anecdote 2001 shmuplations.com; Yoji Shinkawa interview (2001), unofficial English translation -
“among the preliminary sketches I drew, one of them looked like a dinosaur, and Kojima did single that one out. "Let's go with this."”
Yoji Shinkawa Anecdote 2001 shmuplations.com; Yoji Shinkawa interview (2001), unofficial English translation