“Personally, I was amazed that they actually managed to pull it off from the start.”.
Tsuyoshi Kaneda, a former producer on the Derby Stallion series, has recently given an interview to Game*Spark, in which he expressed his amazement at Cygames’ mobile hit Umamusume: Pretty Derby for its use of real horse names (h/t: Automaton West!).
Derby Stallion, in case you’re unaware, is a horse racing/business sim from ASCII that debuted on the Nintendo Famicom in 1991, decades before Cygames launched the mobile hit, and became one of the pioneers of the racing horse genre. It went on to become a major franchise for ASCII, spanning many sequels, but according to Kaneda-san, it often struggled to get the rights to use real-life horse names in its games.
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“Personally, I was amazed that they actually managed to pull it off from the start.”.
Tsuyoshi Kaneda, a former producer on the Derby Stallion series, has recently given an interview to Game*Spark, in which he expressed his amazement at Cygames’ mobile hit Umamusume: Pretty Derby for its use of real horse names (h/t: Automaton West!).
Derby Stallion, in case you’re unaware, is a horse racing/business sim from ASCII that debuted on the Nintendo Famicom in 1991, decades before Cygames launched the mobile hit, and became one of the pioneers of the racing horse genre. It went on to become a major franchise for ASCII, spanning many sequels, but according to Kaneda-san, it often struggled to get the rights to use real-life horse names in its games.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
