Hideki Kamiya’s banana yellow minivan idles quietly outside PlatinumGames’ Osaka headquarters. The air conditioning inside is a welcome escape from the swelteringly humid heat of the Kansai summer. Kamiya laughs as he zips through the narrow back streets of Umeda, explaining why this is the perfect car for him. Although apparently a point of contention with his wife, the car is also the exact right size to transport the arcade cabinets he’s has been installing in his home arcade. So why would he ever get rid of it?
That’s the thing about Hideki Kamiya. Everything seems to come back to video games. He talks and thinks about video games in a way that requires growing up with them as a sort of lifeblood. As a game director, he infuses everything he’s worked on with a playful gaming literacy, from 1998’s Resident Evil 2 to 2013’s The Wonderful 101.
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