TATSUJIN and Raiden Designers Team Up for TATSUJIN EXTREME
The interview reveals that the two designers, who worked on rival vertical shooters during the genre's peak, only began working together recently, with Saito joining TATSUJIN Inc. in 2021.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
Masatoshi Yuge, creator of TATSUJIN, and Takayuki Saito, designer of the Raiden Fighters series, have joined forces at TATSUJIN Inc. for the new game TATSUJIN EXTREME. In an interview with Denfaminicogamer, the two veterans discussed their first collaboration and their decades-long careers in vertical shooters.
The two men behind some of the most recognizable vertical shooters in arcade history are now working at the same company. Masatoshi Yuge, who helped build the foundation of Toaplan's shooting games, and Takayuki Saito, who worked on the Raiden Fighters series at Seibu Kaihatsu, have teamed up for the first time on TATSUJIN EXTREME.
In an interview with Denfaminicogamer, the pair discussed how they came to work together. Saito joined TATSUJIN Inc. in 2021 after being introduced by a mutual friend. Yuge said he was looking for someone skilled at shooters, and the timing worked out. The two had met once around 2017 but had never worked together before.
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