Shinji Mikami over zijn moeilijke jeugd

RDJ134 11 november 2010 om 18:12 uur

Shinji Mikami is bekend van Vanquish en natuurlijk de legendarisch Resident Evil serie, maar deze man schijnt volgens dit interview met 1up een behoorlijke klote jeugd te hebben gehad. Want zijn vader was niet alleen erg streng, maar mepte de kleine Shinji nog wel eens het huis en de straat rond. Moraal van het verhaal is dat ook al slaat je vader nu het ligt uit je ogen, op een dag kan je misschien wel een grote videogame franchise bedenken. En dat is ook wat waard, toch??

"If I was different in any way," he continued, "I suppose it'd be how scary my dad was. He would hit me pretty much daily. My dad had to take jobs starting in middle school and wound up dropping out of high school in order to support his family, so I have to respect him for going through that, but he was really just such a violent person. I remember one night when I went to bed without doing my homework -- he kicked me out of bed in the middle of the night and told me to go outside. So I did, in my pajamas without any shoes on, and he told me to stand in front of the car. Then he started chasing me around in the car, and he wound up having me run about five or six kilometers, all the way to the seashore by our house. Once we hit the coast, he drove off without saying a word, so I had to walk home by myself in my pajamas. If you think about it, if the police had seen this barefoot boy in pajamas being chased by a guy in a car, they would've arrested him on the spot, wouldn't they?"

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