Metro Cross story manga and development team interview
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Micom BASIC 4th Anniversary Special
*First Unveiling!!*
Exclusively to readers of Micom BASIC, we’ll be unveiling a manga drawn by the developers of Metro-Cross themselves. There’s also a direct interview with the developers themselves.
“In the year 2200 of the Tsutauro Star Calendar, the universe was walking a path of destruction...”
“....”
“WHO THE HELL AM I!?”
″DAMMIT! I can’t remember a thing.”
“And where am I?”
“This long corridor...”
“Am I inside some large structure? Or is this the insides of a spaceship?”
“I don’t know...”
“Why can’t I remember a thing?”
“WHAT THE HELL IS GOING HERE!”
DOKAN!
“Uhh”
ZUZUZU....
ZUZU...
BARIBARI
ZUGOGOGO
“Whoa!”
BATSU
“DAMMIT!”
“What the hell just happened?”
Sign: “Danger Ahead!”
“Oh great! A hole!!”
“YIKES!”
“HERE I GO!”
DOZU!
URGH
“D-dammit!”
“OH CRAP!”
“Heave”
“Ho”
“Heave”
“I thought I was a goner...”
PITSU
“Whoa!”
GARAGARA
″WAH!”
Game Over
“Jeesh...”
“Somehow I’m not dead yet!”
“This is yet another corridor.”
ZUGOGOGO
“Wut!”
“They don’t know when to give up!”
“How long must I keep on running like this?”
“An exit!”
“That’s right! I must find one!”
“That is...”
"If there is an exit...”
“But first and foremost is where am I...”
“I still don’t know.”
“Ah!”
“Something’s coming.”
GOROGORO!
GORON GORON
“The hell!”
“I NEED TO DO SOMETHING!!”
“HA!”
“JUMP!!”
TAN
“HOH”
“ARAYO!”
“Phew!”
“Piece of cake.”
“WHOA!”
“ANOTHER ONE!!”
DAWARAN DAWARAN
“HIAH!”
GOON!
"GUH! A DEAD END!”
“Thank goodness! A ladder!”
GOGOGO
ZUUUN
“Phew... That was a close call.”
“This quite a long ladder.”
“But I have no choice but to climb it.”
“More importantly...”
“Many strange things have been happening...”
“What if the ceiling crumbles on me?”
“Or I get attacked by more oildrums?”
“Oh! It’s just another corridor!”
“But this one looks all deteriorated.”
"What an awful waste...”
″Atta!”
Zubu
“What the hell is this?
PERO
“Ah”
“Someone’s coming!”
“Maybe they’ll help me!”
“OVER HERE!”
“Thank goodness!”
“Maybe they know the exit.”
“Hey!”
“The hell...?”
GUWA!
“Whoa Whoat!”
“OH CRAP!”
“!”
"YOU SHIHEAD!”
“BAKIH!”
“Alright! If they’re going to come, they’re regret it!”
“BRING IT ON!”
GUWA
BAKI
DOKAH
BAKO
TORIKATSU
GATSU
“Heh... Serves you guys right!”
“Oy!?”
“....”
“I see...”
“So this was a video game all along.”
“I don’t know who is behind this, but I’m gonna move on.”
“Wait a minute!”
“I don’t remember putting a quarter in this kind of game!”
"If that’s the case, then alright!”
“I’ll keep moving forward regardless of what may come!”
“LET GO!”
MERI MERI
MERI MERI
BAKO MERI MERI GAJIN
BARIN
“WHOA!”
MERI MERI
“HELP ME!”
WAH!”
GASP!
“It was just a dream”
Huh.”
“My life expectancy was just reduced by ten years”
Yawn
“Well then!”
"I’ll be damned!”
ROUND 2 READY!
Visit to the Metro-Cross Development Team
Tsugumi: Good day!
Developers: Hello! Help yourself! This is the development department where all of Namco’s games are made. The six of us were involved with Metro-Cross.
T: It’s a pleasure to meet you! Thanks for sharing the comic. Which of you was the artist?
D: It was our team’s very own Dr. Aids. He also served as the model of the character. Perhaps if you look closely at the picture you might tell.
T: (Which of these guys is he?) Metro-Cross was a big hit among enthusiasts before the announcement, but where did the idea come?
D: There was this guy we saw everyday running to avoid getting late to work and that’s where we got the idea for the game.
T: (Sounds like Mr. Kage.) I see! It seems you can get a game idea from all sorts of places. Also, time is very important.
D: That’s right! Time costs a hundred yen [or a U.S. quarter]. (laughs)
T: Lastly, any advice you might give to children thinking about working on game development.
D: Have interests in many things, not just games. Have more than one thing to specialize at. And finally, keep yourself at good shape if you don’t want to lose a deadline.
T: Thank you very much!
Source: Micom BASIC Magazine July 1985 issue
