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How the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt NES cartridge eventually led to Tokyo Jungle

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[Time Published October 31, 2013 at 04:56AM]

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Yohei Kataoka, who entered the game business after making it into Sony's "Game Yaroze" game-creator project, is the main man behind Tokyo Jungle. Remember Tokyo Jungle? The PSN downloadable game where Tokyo's an abandoned wasteland and you control animals like deer and lions and Pomeranians in a survival-oriented story mode? That one.


It was a pretty nutty title, and as you'd expect, Kataoka (head of indie game studio Crispy's) had an unusual route into the game business. His first inspiration came in his early youth spent in the northeastern US.


"I lived in Boston when I was young," he told Famitsu magazine, "and I ran into the NES for the first time when I was three or so years old. I wasn't all that good at English at the time and...


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[Source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/30/5048262/how-the-super-mario-bros-duck-hunt-nes-cartridge-eventually-led-to] | Image URL: http://cdn3.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/22085425/duck.0_cinema_720.0.jpg]

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