Hideo Kojima is one of those handfull of famous game designers, most known for his Metal Gear Solid series. However he’s also made a lot of other games (the awesome gameboy Boktai series included) and is about to release (in Japan) his first Nintendo DS game:
It’s called Kabutore (geddit?) and is a stock-market simulation game. Players buy and sell and whatnot, and the game apparently contains data taken from the Japanese Nikkei index since 2000, so it more or less simulates a ‘real’ stock market.
It’ll never come to America. But if it does, maybe this will be the straw that finally convinces Bernard to buy himself a DS 🙂
To end today’s post, here’s a shot of the awesome 2D art in the recent GBA release Yggdra Union (which is sitting on my shelf waiting to be played):
Does that mean you can cheat in the game by examining past Nikkei index data? I hope they have some random data as well, else it’ll not be much of a game.
Also why play a stock market game when you can play the real thing? It’s more exciting when there’s real money on the table! 🙂
My money’s on the sword maidens.
BTW, I don’t get “Kabutore”…