Flying through life: Meet the man behind Panzer Dragoon

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Chance is a funny thing. The road we walk through life is filled with forks that force us to choose between one route and another, and with every turn the final destination becomes less and less clear. You know, a little like in OutRun.
Although Yukio Futatsugi was potty for games ever since he was in junior high school in Kobe, Japan, and fell in love with Pong and Space Invaders while spending a year in San Francisco at primary school age, he very nearly did not become the creator of Panzer Dragoon. He very nearly became a filmmaker.
"In high school I would make movies with my friends, on 8mm, like indie movies," says Futatsugi, 43, as we chat in a tiny, bare backroom in the Kyoto venue where the inaugural BitSummit is drawing to a close.
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