[boojiboy7]

[OffalAl]

[Rud31]

I feel really weird about it, but I want to mention that Hinge Problems has a whole episode about how much we love Kenji Eno.
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[rye]

Rude, I really like the post you wrote about Eno.

The most recent 8-4 Play podcast (2h6m in) had some cool things to say about him at the end of their most recent episode (a few of them actually knew Eno).

They told the story about how he switched the gold-master ROMs for one of his games because the publisher told him to censor a scene. He submitted the version without the scene for gold master certification, then replaced it with with the un-censored version after it was approved!

He wrote a book (for his son?) about the nuclear power issue, and it's complexity.

Renovated a hot spring in (much poorer) northern Japan under a pseudonym.

He had this philosophy where you should totally change what you're doing every few years.


Sometimes I wonder if all the attention I give to video games is worth-while. Are making and playing games just distracting us from being great humans? I think Eno was a great dude, and it makes me feel a little more okay with being so into this stuff.
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[Rud31]

We'll never get to know what he thought about his games being 100-yen picks ups everywhere.

Like good copies of Enemy Zero were usually in the "take it and run thief" bins.

Sad that those bins don't really exist anymore.
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[Takashi]

[Rud31]

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[Gironika]

[Kappuru]

tomonobu itagaki wishes he was this guy.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

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One of the best and most beautiful game soundtracks of all time. Kenji Eno basically held Michael Nyman (a great composer, particularly famous for his work on Campion and Greenaway films) hostage in his hotel room for 6 hours in order to convince him to do the score.

[boojiboy7]

Man i love that story.

Also love that they hired somebody to do a big design for the enemies in E0, and then made that design only visible for a few seconds because the enemies are mostly invisible.

[Swarm]

One year on there's word that Eno's last work is gonna be crowd-funded, and then there's Scroll 11 dedicated to Warp. It's only $5 for the pdf, but if you can't spare the bones and really want to read it, PM me and I can upload it somewhere.