Samurai Shodown sits on a throne of lies [Joystiq]

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Longtime developer Gregg Tavares recently appeared on the 8-4 Play podcast, 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.Samurai Shodown sits on a throne of lies originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[kedawa]

Porting it to the NeoGeo? Nice fact checking there.

[Edmond Dantes]

So... acknowledging the error kedawa pointed out, does that mean the actual discovery is bunkum, or is it actually true that the button prompt is meaningless?

[Ed Oscuro]

I think Joystiq must've screwed up; the podcast page doesn't mention SNK or the Neo Geo but the wide range of consoles (and computers) mentioned make it look like it could've been most anything.