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Adventure Island’s Master Higgins/Takahashi Meijin by Ashley Davis. She is really targeting her No Marios fanart blog directly at my interests.
I probably shouldn’t say out loud, for financial reasons, how much I’d like to put a print of her Master Higgins on my wall.
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tags / ashley davis / fanart / jc / takahashi meijin / gaming / adventure islandExcerpt from Ray Barnholt’s Meijin Tribute Cast, featuring generous Tiny Cartridge screen time and also me! Friday night, Ray broadcasted a live play of Adventure Island, Star Soldier, and the remarkably execrable Bug-tte Honey, and spoke to guests Matt Leone, Alex Fraioli, and my aforementioned ass, all in honor of the resigning Takahashi Meijin.
Topics discussed in my little segment include Takahashi Meijin as a Mr. T analog, how ridiculous the last half of Adventure Island is, and The Official 16 Shot Book. Also other stuff, but I’m way too afraid of going back and listening to my own voice to remind myself.
Thanks so, so much to Ray for inviting us on! I’m actually very proud that we came up when he was thinking of people he’d like to talk about Takahashi Meijin with. :) Please go read Ray’s Meijin article at GamePro!
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Takahashi Meijin inspects his Famicom tournament schedule, recorded on a girl’s Hudson Bee pantsu.
Since Toshiyuki Takahashi announced his departure from Hudson Soft earlier this week, a couple more reports regarding the pitchman have popped up — the 16shot specialist is apparently working with Japanese idol Haruna Anno on an unnanounced project, and he might be unable to keep the “Takahashi Meijin” nickname due to his former employer trademarking the character.
GamePro writer and Scroll publisher Ray Barnholt, who posted an excellent piece on Takahashi’s history at Hudson, is streaming a live “Meijincast”, in which he’s playing through some Adventure Island (which stars Takahashi as “Master Higgins”), right now! Watch it!
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[Thanks, Persona! Image via esuteru]
tags / hudson soft / manga / takahashi meijin / pantsu / meijincast / gaming / ecWhile the recent dismantling of Hudson Soft into a source of cell-phone game IP was disheartening, it didn’t really feel like the death of the company. But now, the dream is unquestionably over.
Takahashi Meijin is leaving the company on May 31. In a post on his 16Shot blog (which is also ending), he apologized for the abruptness of the announcement, and said that he doesn’t plan to leave the game industry.
Toshiyuki Takahashi, a PR executive who joined the publisher on August 21, 1982, became famous (earning the nickname “Takahashi Meijin,” or “Master Takahashi”) for his remarkable ability to press a button 16 times per second — a valuable asset in Star Soldier and other shooters. And, though Tiny Cartridge readers either knew this already or learned it from the fact that I post about him all the damn time, he was the inspiration for the Shooting Watch toy and the Master Higgins character in the Adventure Island games.
This feels like the end of an era to me — one of the heroes of the Famicom era leaving the post that he held for so long. It’ll be weird to see Takahashi Meijin at another company. Will he still be the Meijin? Will he still be rapidly pressing buttons in public? Or will he become another executive?
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[Video: the Meijin performing “Runner”. Thanks to Heidi Kemps for assistance with blog translation!]
tags / takahashi meijin / jc / gaming / hudson / the saddest thingTakahashi Meijin teaches you how to play Milon’s Secret Castle. Even if you’re not interested in playing Hudson’s weirdo NES game, you will love the way he dispenses his game tips — with a big, hand-drawn castle and a Milon sprite on a stick.
The long, long list of projects Eric and I would undertake if we had the money and time now includes a show in which we do puppet-show style demonstrations of various games.
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[Via Famicom no Neta]
tags / hudson / milon's secret castle / takahashi meijin / jcFamicom commercials! I don’t think I’m ever going to post anything better than this video. I should retire. In addition to ads for games like Castlevania, Star Soldier, Super Mario Bros. 2, and Zelda, this video features a couple of Sega ads, including Zillion. Oh, and a commercial for TAKAHASHI MEIJIN SHOES.
And when I do retire, it’ll be so I can devote more time to my hobby of watching that Super Chinese (Kung-Fu Heroes) ad.
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tags / famicom / commercial / takahashi meijin / jcSharp Twin Famicom commercial. This video becomes continually more perfect as it approaches the end of its 15-second runtime. Laser Famicom! Stop-motion flying cartridges and disks! Semi-casual space uniform kid! And then… surprise Meijin!
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[Via Fuck Yeah Famicom]
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Takahashi Meijin and Katamari Damacy, a new mobile game that I’ll never get to play and now I wish I’d never seen. Two multi-publisher crossover games were released at this week’s launch of the “DoCoDeMo Game” service for NTT DoCoMo phones. This game and “Bomberman x Pac-Man” (!) are both free and browser-based for subscribers to that Japan-only phone service.
Actually, given how much I like Takahashi Meijin and Katamari Damacy, it’s probably for the best that I never experience firsthand how crappy I’m sure this cash-in mobile game is.
[Via GAME Watch]
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Boxart for the DVD release of Bug-tte Honey. The random anime show starring a cartoony Takahashi Meijin will be released in the first of two DVD sets in Japan on July 28. If you don’t mind ordering from Amazon Japan or the like — and you don’t mind the Japanese dialogue — you could have 27 episodes of classic, game-promotin’ entertainment this summer.
[Via Takahashi Meijin, of course]
See also: Songs from the Takahashi Meijin Legend CD
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Sample page from Takahashi Meijin : autobiographie d’une idole du jeu vidéo au Japon #1 , featuring some business cards of the legendary Hudson PR executive/button-mashing freak. Not only does Pix’n Love produce game magazines and iPhone games, it’s also publishing a French translation of The Official 16-Shot Book: Takahashi Meijin’s Games Are For an Hour a Day, the Meijin’s 2009 autobiography, which Ray Barnholt photographed and described here.
It’s got to be easier to read in French than in Japanese, since you can at least read the symbols if you don’t know either. If you’d like to order the book when it’s released in June, Eastern Mind’s Bruno de Figueiredo produced a handy video tutorial for ordering things from Pix’n Love.
See also: L’integrale Des Jeux by Pix’n Love, more Takahashi Meijin stuff
tags / takahashi meijin / hudson / pix n love / pix'n love / jcTakahashi Meijin hates waiting at elevators! Hudson produced this commercial along with several other office-themed spots back in 2008 for the Shooting Watch’s re-launch in Japan. Watch all the ads here!
I’m calling attention to the device today because Hudson snuck in a mystery game titled Shooting Watch in Nintendo of Europe’s release list for 2010 Q2. This same list also revealed that one of the Jam With The Band/Daigasso! Band Brothers games will finally come to the West, but all the other gaming sites are already covering that news, so I’m focusing on this more obscure item.
What could a full retail Shooting Watch game consist of beyond a function for measuring how fast you can tap buttons and a few minigames? Training exercises? Online leaderboards? Caravan-styled Star Soldier challenges?!
You don’t need to wait for Hudson to release Shooting Watch to play with the toy on your DS, as there’s already a really neat Shooting Watch DS homebrew app you can download, as well as a WarioWare D.I.Y. microgame!
See also: 16 beat vs. 16 shot!
tags / shooting watch / takahashi meijin / hudsonTakahashi Meijin challenged by Sakurada Ichiro in Star Soldier. I’d like to say that the Meijin essentially melts this guy’s face off on the field of Star Soldier, but that’s not exactly the case.
After the competition, there appear to be some bloopers and then a contest in which kids send in cards to win t-shirts, telephone cards, and other items.
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[Via GoNintendo]
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