Nycifer@piefed.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDouble Dragon And River City Creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto Has Passed Awaygameinformer.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1173arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1168arrow-down1external-linkDouble Dragon And River City Creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto Has Passed Awaygameinformer.comNycifer@piefed.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 day ago64??? That means he must have been a teenager, or barely 20 when he made double dragon! Didn’t that come out in arcades in the early 80s?
minus-squaredefuse959@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·24 hours agoArticle says DD was 87. So he would have been mid 20’s. That era really was so full of these great programmers making legendary games so young in their lives.
minus-squarefishy@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoIt’s kinda similar to the indie scene now, small teams or even solo devs can make things of a smaller scope and can try something totally new or innovate on an old idea in a way AAA games just can’t.
64??? That means he must have been a teenager, or barely 20 when he made double dragon! Didn’t that come out in arcades in the early 80s?
Article says DD was 87. So he would have been mid 20’s.
That era really was so full of these great programmers making legendary games so young in their lives.
It’s kinda similar to the indie scene now, small teams or even solo devs can make things of a smaller scope and can try something totally new or innovate on an old idea in a way AAA games just can’t.