One game that came across my radar and was recommended on several websites was Hideo Kojima’s forgotten gem Policenauts, released first on the PC-9281 in Japan in 1994, then the 3DO in 1995, and later the Playstation, and Sega Saturn in 1996. In whatever shape or form it takes, that is the kind of game I want to make again.” Policenauts on SEGA Saturn / Credit: Konami, mobygames. I like scouring the web for relatively obscure games for 5th and 6th generation consoles. The world was simply the empty vessel for the activities and lives of the various characters that you meet, and the inexorable fate that they are dragged into unawares… I wanted to present that experience, which can only be adequately conveyed in a meaningful and satisfying way through interactive media. Policenauts ( ) è un avventura grafica di genere fantascientifico, scritta e diretta da Hideo Kojima, e pubblicata dalla Konami. The concept was different: this game would appeal to, and remain etched in, the heart of a very specific kind of person.” And accepting criticism that the game leans on the likes of Blade Runner for its world building and plot, he continues: “What I was interested in expressing was not an original story or world.

Speaking to an unknown publication but preserved at, he said: “My concept for Snatcher was not to make a game with a broad and shallow appeal that anyone, ‘from children to adults!’ could enjoy.

Six years earlier, before Snatcher came West, Kojima spoke about his feelings on the game, having seen the expanded PC Engine version sell reasonably well for the platform.

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