/vr/ - Retro Games

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the programmer who created the Konami code, has passed away yesterday.

Which makes me think
Nobody even knows what they look like or anything about them, at best they have a short interview in some lost micom magazine, their last credited game was gungage they might as well have died twenty years ago
Why are creative, skilled, mastermind Japanese programmers so unwilling to have any sort of public presence whatsoever other than their name in the credits, meanwhile composers (like technouchi, who reported his death) all have social media accounts and actively interact with fans going as far as meeting up with them at tgms and m3

RIP Mr. Hashimoto, but like, fuck