Thank you for writing this, I really appreciate it. I've been following Itagaki's career since the early DOA days (and yours too since your time at 1UP, btw), so this really means a lot. I had no idea you two were *that* close.

Me too (also stored away in some box)!

You don't even mention Xbox anymore even though your own game is available for it, too.

Are you aware of bsky.app/profile/unse... and the book The Games That Weren’t (Bitmap Books)?

79 would be terrible for Ubisoft. I'm guessing low-to-mid 80s.

J Allard!

It was meant to differentiate "computer role-playing games" from "[table-top] role-playing games". So basically digital vs. physical. I think later on, the term "CRPG" has also been used to differentiate western RPGs from JRPGs.

Computer :)

Ah, I didn't know. That's good news!

The IGN acquisition was the beginning of the end, the removal of the comments function is the continuation. :(