Itagaki: Tecmo Tricked Me Into Releasing Dead Or Alive 2
From a piece by Chris Kohler for Wired’s Game|Life blog:
As the deadline of the PlayStation 2’s launch grew closer, the company’s sales general manager approached Itagaki at his desk [about the development of the port of Dead or Alive 2].
“Can I borrow a copy of this so I can play it a little?” Itagaki remembers the manager saying.
“I said, sure, yeah, go on, and I handed him the disc which was still under development,” Itagaki said. “But this disc was never played by them.”
Instead, Itagaki said to the crowd of game developers and executives, “it was taken into a factory for production on that day without me knowing it.”
What the fuck.