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Session Name: Classic Game Postmortem: Shenmue
Speaker(s): Yu Suzuki
Company Name(s): Ys Net
Track / Format: Design

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Overview: Yu Suzuki will talk for the very first time about the creation of the console classic, Shenmue. Beginning with the origin of the title as a Virtua Fighter-based RPG on the Sega Saturn, he will take the audience through the long journey of the game that led to its ultimate release in 1999 on the Sega Dreamcast.

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Yu Suzuki

Ys Net

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