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12-30-2012, 09:40 PM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2012/12/samurai-shodown-button-mash.png (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/30/samurai-shodown-sits-on-a-throne-of-lies/)Longtime developer Gregg Tavares recently appeared on the 8-4 Play podcast (http://8-4.jp/blog/?p=1423&lang=en), where he revealed an interesting tidbit about 1993 fighting game Samurai Shodown. Prior to his development team getting code for the game to port it to the Neo Geo, a member of the team noticed something odd about the sword-clashing mini-game that prompts players to mash buttons: the buttons don't actually do anything.
When the team picked up the contract, they checked the code to find that the mini-game, while displaying a command encouraging players to press buttons to win the sword dual, actually "picks a random number" to determine the winner. The surprise of the other panelists at finding out about this quirky Samurai Shodown nugget of information makes listening in at the 1:36:05 mark worthwhile.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Samurai Shodown sits on a throne of lies (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/30/samurai-shodown-sits-on-a-throne-of-lies/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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When the team picked up the contract, they checked the code to find that the mini-game, while displaying a command encouraging players to press buttons to win the sword dual, actually "picks a random number" to determine the winner. The surprise of the other panelists at finding out about this quirky Samurai Shodown nugget of information makes listening in at the 1:36:05 mark worthwhile.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Samurai Shodown sits on a throne of lies (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/30/samurai-shodown-sits-on-a-throne-of-lies/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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