Team Ninja many many years ago...

TEAM NINJA, Many years ago...
This week 1UP Itagaki interview is finally all released. The video Itagaki made is amazing, showing a little bit of DOA4 footage, plus things that happened inside Team Ninja. As a DOA fan, that is very interesting material to see. I did not know that they drink, and make games at the same time. LOL. The reporter at 1UP is amazing too, being able to get an 8 hour interview is really something not easy to get.

Team Ninja/DOA really came a long way. Back then, Tecmo was not as famous as today. However, DOA 1 sold really well. I still remember myself playing DOA1 in the arcade and told myself, "This one is good." Virtua Fighter 2 and DOA1 are too of my favorite back then.

Itagaki san nowadays wear leather jacket and wear dark cool shades. You can hardly see his eyes. He dress like that almost in all of the interview I read. So, I get you these: 2 of the early days of Team Ninja photos discussing about DOA1. Guess who is Itagaki then? And...is that his right hand man? He really sat at the right hand side of him. BTW, those white cans are tea, while the yellow ones I don't know. Anyone in Japan drank those before?