EXCLUSIVE: On the 25th anniversary of the genesis of his Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima back on a career devoted to the fight against the stigma of working in video games, in the first of two interview rooms

Six months later, he joined Konami Hideo Kojima, one of the studio's most respected games in Japan, is asked by a college friend to be best man at his wedding.

"The boyfriend stood up to introduce He said:" Welcome to all This is Mr. Kojima is a very talented and beautiful way, but sorry to say that, for some unknown reason. .. who decided to join a video game company Everybody laughs Looks: .. work in the gaming industry has been regarded as a low status job at that time was not even a word in Japanese post game creators, then I slept in the evenings telling people ... I worked for a financial company ... "

Born to well-to-do parents, Kojima - the creator of the Metal Gear series of multi-million selling and Vice-President of Konami Digital Entertainment - was the youngest of three children and a winner at a young age. But he was also a dreamer.

"When I was little, I always thought different worlds in my head," he says, as we sit at breakfast in a shop in Soho in London to discuss his life and his career in the 25th anniversary of the genesis of Metal Gear.

"was constantly invent stories about the things around me. I find myself laughing or crying for seemingly random things and people do not understand why. Japan strings storm on both sides of the main roads. There were many times when I fall into these ditches because it was lost in the stories as he walked along.'s always dangerous for me to drive. 'have driven in the door entrance to my house several times.

"Even now, as we speak, I think my mind wanders, if I did not care," he said with a warm smile. He waved cappuccino intact on the table before him. "Take this cup of coffee, for example"

"OK. What is the history of coffee?" He asked.

"I am a story in which there is a huge cup of coffee that we are all sitting inside. Not really a story, I suppose, as an array. But it! Here's how it works my mind. "

a born storyteller, Kojima parents encouraged the donation, at least not through their own love film. "I was born in a small town," he said. "But when I was four years old, he moved to Osaka. Was a huge environmental change and after I spend more time at home, watching TV or doing numbers.

"It was during this time that my parents introduced a family tradition Every night, we all watch a movie together, was not allowed to go to bed until the film was finished:. The opposite for most children. My parents were big fans of westerns, European cinema and horror in particular. They not only showed me films for children. I even like to see sex scenes. "

At the age of 10, parents encourage Kojima began to film by yourself. "They gave me money to go to the movies by myself," he said. "I was allowed to go as long as I got home and discussed the film with them after the prospectus had to buy film and then bring it back with me about the problems in the film and address .. What I felt. "

love to see this film as soon combined with Kojima own creative spark and a friend 8mm video camera, he and his high school friends began making his own short films. "To be honest, my friends were not really want to make movies like me," he said, laughing. "But I convinced everyone to zombie movies with me.

"You see, every year, there was a cultural festival organized in our school. My idea was to make a zombie movie, show there and sell tickets to earn money which we could buy more movies to watch. ''ve sold tickets for about 50p., but we do not have enough money to buy even a movie. "

Kojima is known for his theater plays, his most famous title - 1998 Metal Gear Solid - pioneer kind of grand narrative in 3D games which is very common nowadays. As a kid, there were glimpses of the creative ambition motivation.

"There was a movie that tried to settle in the island," he said. "My idea was that there had been a plane crash and a group of high school students had survived. Wanted it to be as Robison Crusoe.

"We managed to fool our parents give us money to go to a four-day trip to an exotic island off the coast of Japan. But when we arrived, we spent the first three days of swimming in the sea. On the last day, we realized how little time we had left, so I changed the plot ... another zombie movie. idea remains that the plane crashed and had survived high school. But this time, with zombies found on the island. "

"No," said with a laugh generous.

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