For nearly 30 years, Hudson’s human mascot has been Takahashi Meijin, who rose to prominence during the company’s heyday. Today, he revealed he’s leaving the company.
During the 1980s, Takahashi Meijin, born Toshiyuki Takahashi, gained fame for his ability to press buttons very quickly. His personal high was firing 16 shots per second in Hudson’s shooter Star Soldier. Takahashi even taught kids finger exercises to improve their gaming prowess.
Takahashi not only promoted games, he appeared in them, most notably Adventure Island.
In a blog post today, Takahashi revealed that he is leaving the company at the end of this month. Takahashi’s post doesn’t go into detail why he is resigning, but the famed gaming personality touched on how he’s been at Hudson for the past 26 years and apologized for the sudden announcement.
退社報告 [高橋名人 OFFICIAL SITE 16SHOT]
(Top photo | ZakZak)
Cerzel
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 5:30 PMAnd yet, even he could not beat the button mashing sequence in Conker’s Pocket Tales.
toejam
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 7:34 PMHas he heard of rapid fire?
MrTaco
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 3:01 AMOf course he has. He was its grandaddy.
Picky
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 1:04 AMSome of the arm wrestles in shenmue 2 were pretty tough
Bob
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 5:52 PMWHOAH. I think we all know how he got to be that fast…….. he BETTER not be teaching kids anything!