The Most Important Developer You (Likely) Never Heard Of 

When I was growing up in Brazil, I had no idea what the hell was a Ryu. But Terry Bogard was THE MAN.

Hearing that he founded dimps was the actual SHOCK of this video. Actually mind blown lmao!!

I was not prepared for the Dimps plot twist. Sonic Advance 2 was my first proper Sonic game, I think

I knew this would be a Derrick video just from the title lol

Kung Fu Master (and Game of Death, by extension) wasn't only massively influential for beat-em-ups and Mario - it's also where the terms "level" and "boss" even come from! In the film, Bruce Lee had to ascend each "level" of a pagoda, and each level's goons had a "boss" that Lee had to defeat before moving to the next level. That format was used for Kung Fu Master, and that's how it became standard game terminology

Wild to think how one person could directly and indirectly influence gaming as whole like this

This is almost like a retrospective on the importance of Jackie Chan in videgames lol

I had just watched this before it went live on YT and MAN, WHAT A STORY. Nishiyama is a legend.

Fascinating to hear how Street Fighter's 6-button input was a compromise that had to be fought for. I don't know if the SNES would have had 6-buttons without that, and the 6-button controllers for the Mega Drive/Genesis and PC Engine were primarily sold for their utility in Street Fighter II, and the following generation would use a minimum of 8-button controllers as standard. A huge development in the complexity and depth offered by console games.

I really enjoyed your deep dive into Nishiyama's career and how many different things in games and even manga his works would help inspire. I would honestly love Derrick to do other videos like this for other game devs who aren't as well known, but absolutely made an impact in the gaming space.

Man, I've heard some of these stories individually, but it's crazy to hear them in one coherent timeline! I knew Nishiyami was influential, but not to this extent

SNK WAS APART OF MY CHILDHOOD WITH KOF & METAL SLUG

I haven’t really made any videos yet but one I’ve had floating around in my head for a little while has the tentative title “follow the creators, not the publishers.” This concept goes for every industry, and my concept for this video will take an awful lot of research but videos like this one will be instrumental in its creation. I trust that nobody will take this idea, but if they do I’ll just have to make it better.

I played those games, fond memories. I had Kung Fu Master on a floppy disk for the Commodore 64 computer, and played Moon Patrol at my school's computer lab on an Apple II computer.

Kung Fu Master is a real classic, it kickstarted my love for fighting games. I still playing them to this day.

Great Video! These kinds of spotlights on prolific names in the industry are really cool!

Now this is QUALITY gaming history coverage! It's insane how much one man had so much influence on Japanese games industry. And how little people know about him. Ryu's name origin was esp. interesting.

It’s always nice to learn about more singular stories from the gaming industry. Just goes to show how far one person could go back in the day. Though it’s also important to recognize the people surrounding Nishiyama. I believe a lot of the people who helped form Dimps also worked on Sonic Pocket Adventure, so that probably helped them get the Advance/Rush contracts.

I watch a lot of video-game related content and just had to say that this is one of the most enjoyable in recent memory. Very well done GVG, made me a subscriber

Awesome spotlight on such an influential developer!

Another individual I think is worth doing a deep dive into is actually somebody else tied to Street Fighter amusingly, namely Yoshiki Okamoto, producer of Street Fighter II. Despite the magnitude of that credit alone, it often feels like his other credits are largely understated if not overlooked, between other innovations in the early years of the shoot-em-up genre on behalf of Konami and Capcom (one of which of course inspired the Red Dead franchise), directly also having a hand in seemingly every other capcom IP of note in the 90s, and even most notably being responsible for another of the highest grossing video games of all time (despite being almost exclusively a Japan-only phenomenon) in Monster Strike. Overall this video was very enlightening in its own right though, and I was convinced thanks to this that Takashi was every bit as worth talking about as him. Clearly there are a lot of long-time creators out there who aren't given anywhere near the recognition they should have and I'm glad this video was made to put a spotlight out on one of them.

I really appreciate videos like this, I'm always down to learn more about the industry's history!

Tsujimoto is a big wine connoisseur, and he puts emphasis on "quality" in his games. I've read their company annual reports after their X360/PS3 era fumbling to now rising since MonHun World and Resident Evil 7.

That is one hell of a career. Yeah, I knew some of these things, but there was also stuff I didn't know, and I definitely never put it all together like that.

Great video Derek! Love your narrative videos, and something about your voice over is always just so wholesome. Good vibes

Great video Derrick

I really appreciate informational videos like this, I was unaware about all of this and I don’t know if I’d be motivated enough to look into it and research it on my own.

He's an important figure in most of the games I enjoy.

this was such a great video about the history of Nishiyama's video games. I'm a support worker and one of the folk that I support loves video games and we will sometimes play them and when I first started over a year ago they said their favourite game was streets of rage 2. so one day when I had the person for a long social support I took in my sega megadrive and a selection of games that I owned into work and asked him if he wanted to play any of the games that I brought with me which was streets of rage 2,dr robotnik's mean bean machine, sonic 2, altered beast and Zombies ate my neighbours or just zombies in the UK. the person looked at them and didn't seem interested until they saw the last game at the bottom it was fatal fury and immediately they said "can we play this one". as it turns out they are a huge fan of the fighting game genre and fatal fury and every now and then when I have a long social support with them we will play games on my megadrive or their xbox and it was all thanks to me owning fatal fury on the megadrive that we started to play games together.

Huh, I actually knew most of these facts about the man, but of course it's still important to share, because it really is such a cool story of the impact he's had on the industry. Great video, and hopefully more people recognize the significance of his legacy!🙏

I didn't really know any of this. Great video! Thank you!

Great video!

Great fucking video. I love learning stuff like this. This was very entertaining and I learned a lot. Keep it up.

That's certainly an incredible career!

I always pronounced it “Eye-rem”. Then I remembered they are Japanese developers. Mind. BLOWN.

Somebody has been reading the Oral History of Street Fighter II 😉

Latino America is here for you SNK

…how is Kung Fu Master not on Switch via Arcade Archives?!

Oh man…

I felt very called out when Kung Fu Master came on screen

Didn't expect to hear Dimps get mentioned. Been an age since I seen or heard of that name. The DBZ Budokai games are some of the few fighting games I legitimately love as someone who sucks at the fighting genre. Budokai 3 is my favorite out of the trilogy and Budokai 2 was the first PS2 game I ever had!

Daaaaamn, I actually learned quite a lot from this.

Derrick's videos are always a joy to watch, they're so informative!

Wow they made kirby and the amazing mirror??

MOON PATROL! 😂

Good and interesting video

I feel bad for you, putting all the effort into these videos and then some bots with an ugly ass pfp post fake compliments.

lol i always thoght irem was pronounced as eye rem.

This video is kinda ugly with the editing lmao, what's with the static images and bland reading