{"id":697,"date":"2016-02-27T06:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T06:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeremiepgagnon.wordpress.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2016-02-27T06:46:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T06:46:35","slug":"fuji-enterprises-kamikaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/2016\/02\/27\/fuji-enterprises-kamikaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuji Enterprises&rsquo; Kamikaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While going through old issues of Game Machine, I stumbled on an add that picked my interest. The add in question was published in February of 1976 and dedicates a full page to a game called <em>Kamikaze<\/em>\u00a0set up in an upright game cabinet, a standard a time when most video games were still either imported or consisted of\u00a0blatant copies of Atari&rsquo;s products.<\/p>\n<p>Here comes Fuji Enterprises, publishing a game that is presumably about crashing your Mitsubishi A60 (also called <em>Rei-shiki<\/em>) against various naval vessels. The cabinet itself is a recreation of a cockpit, complete with a control stick and some pseudo-flight instruments. Most cabinets of this type during the 1974-1978 period where racing games, which makes this specific game quite unique in its design and (somewhat dark) subject matter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scan-1.jpeg?w=675\" alt=\"Scan 1\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scan-1.jpeg 1050w, https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scan-1-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scan-1-675x1024.jpeg 675w, https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scan-1-768x1165.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scan-1-1012x1536.jpeg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is very little information about this game or\u00a0its reception at the time; the only thing I was able to find is this advertisement. <em>Game Machine<\/em> never ended up writing about the game itself. If you know something about that game, please share it with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While going through old issues of Game Machine, I stumbled on an add that picked my interest. The add in question was published in February of 1976 and dedicates a full page to a game called Kamikaze\u00a0set up in an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/2016\/02\/27\/fuji-enterprises-kamikaze\/\">Continue la lecture <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-field-trip-2016","category-game-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}