Gaming Historica | The Story of Yutaka Isokawa and Pitman | Sharp MZ-80K (1985)
Added 2025-04-03 11:29:01 +0000 UTCIn the beginning Of 1980s, Yutaka Isokawa was a young programmer working on the computer PC games. He create a game called Pitman. It is a clever puzzle game for Sharp MZ-80K which was a big selling Japanese MiniPC. The game must move a character little like a cat through the mazes screen and can rewinding the time to figure out the puzzles
What makes this interesting is Isokawa originally sent Pitman to Oh!MZ Magazine which was a Japanese magazine that printed game code for the readers to type into their computer and then they can play the game. This was a good way for new programmers to share their game work in those days .
In 2013 Isokawa had lost his own magazine where Pitmans was first show. and an England journalist manage to find one and gave it to him as gift! This was on video and Isokawa-san was so happy to see it again!!
Amazing moment 🤗
Pitman in the end was a popular game and got released even on Game Boy in Japan and in 1990 went to the western countries where it was called Catrap!!
You can try it!
Comments
Well it not really his game it is only the code for the game.. it is thought about as first release because you could type his game code in at home from the magazine .. very slow. But then you can play the game!!
SuperSisi
2025-04-03 20:01:27 +0000 UTCYes unlike game company executives , cough, cough: Sony, Microsoft and now Nintendo gamers care about each other.
James Waddell III
2025-04-03 19:34:54 +0000 UTCWhat an incredible story!! I am happy that he could recover his own game!
Ikaruga_Shock
2025-04-03 18:05:22 +0000 UTC
