I Hacked The Video Game That Made Hayao Miyazaki Hate Video Games

Shit was rough for Hayao Miyazaki in the 1980s. Nobody seemed to know what to do with his more personal, more revolutionary work. Besides ruin it, that is. A lot has been written about Warriors Of The Wind, the butchered 1985 US adaptation of Nausicaä Of The Valley of the Wind, to the point where even the <a href="https://cinema.wisc.edu/blog/2016/09/06/when-nausica%C3%A4-became-warriors-wind" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">exact minutes shaved off</a> from the original have been tallied up in detail. No sense dwelling on that story, except to note yet again that his producer <a href="https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/26/21270413/princess-mononoke-hayao-miyazaki-movies-harvey-weinstein-katana-story-studio-ghibli" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">once sent a sword to Harvey Weinstein</a> in a polite but menacing manner because of it, and that rules ass. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*9EbjycjPDLreaglbGNgslQ.png" style="height:400px; width:640px" /> Also Pictured: Ruling Ass What also rules ass is the multiple video games based on Miyazaki’s previous film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_of_Cagliostro" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Lupin III: The Castle Of Cagliostro</a>. While not a commercial success initially, the film caught the attention of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Suzuki_(producer)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Toshio Suzuki</a>, then working as editor for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokuma_Shoten" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Tokuma Shoten</a> magazine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animage" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Animage</a>. He encouraged Miyazaki to pitch story ideas to them, which led to the creation of his manga Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, later adapted to film. The Castle Of Cagliostro inspired several video games, mostly side-scrolling arcade action but also one in the emerging adventure/dungeon-crawler genre catching on in Japan, on the NEC PC-8801. Clearly based on the mechanics of <a href="http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2013/04/dark-age-of-jrpgs-2-some-games-we.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Spy Daisakusen (Mission Impossible)</a>, it’s a solid game for fans of extremely old-school JRPGs. <a href="https://ranibaker.medium.com/i-hacked-the-video-game-that-made-hayao-miyazaki-hate-video-games-bf9dc5ffbe51">Read More</a>