Eikichi Kawasaki (川崎 英吉, Kawasaki Eikichi) is a former Japanese game director, producer, planner, video game designer and founder of the original SNK. He is currently retired. He is sometimes credited as "E. Kawasaki".
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Kawasaki was born on 1944-07-07 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.[1]
Kawasaki (left) with Angel Torres of Evoga (December 2000)
He stayed with the company until its bankruptcy, creating the Playmore group to save SNK's assests. After he won several lawsuits against SNK's former partner, Aruze, Kawasaki resurrected the company with the SNK Playmore name before eventually returning to SNK.
Kawasaki and his wife Natsuyo Kawasaki sold 81.25% of their shares in SNK Playmore to Ledo Millenium in order to allow the acquisition of SNK Playmore by the Chinese joint venture, finalizing the transaction on 2015-08-06.[2]
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Kawasaki (right) with the chairman of Huali Technology (China 2011)
He has an in-game reference in the Ikari Warriors ending as "General Kawasaki". He is abnormally larger than the other characters in the game, dons a military outfit, and a black eye patch. He is visually similar to Heidern.
SNK credits[]
- Vanguard
- Bermuda Triangle - director
- World Wars - director
- Chopper I - supervisor
- Guerrilla War - supervisor
- P.O.W. - Prisoners of War - "boss"; director + producer
- Prehistoric Isle in 1930 - producer
- Fighting Soccer - producer
- Beast Busters - president
- SAR - Search and Rescue - "boss"; director
- Mechanized Attack - producer
- Street Smart - "boss"; director + producer
- The Next Space - "boss"; director
- The Super Spy - "boss"; director
- Riding Hero - producer
- Ikari III: The Rescue - producer
- Puzzled - producer
- NAM-1975 - producer
- Cyber-Lip - producer
- Robo Army - executive producer
- Eight Man - producer
- Ghost Pilots - producer
- Burning Fight - producer
- Alpha Mission II - producer
- Baseball Stars 2 - producer
- Soccer Brawl - producer
- Football Frenzy - producer
- Mutation Nation - producer
- King of the Monsters 2 - executive producer
- Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy - producer
- Neo Geo Cup '98 - The Road to the Victory - president
- Super Sidekicks series - (I: producer; II~III: president)
- Fatal Fury series - (I~Fatal Fury Special: producer; III~Real Bout: "big boss")
- Art of Fighting - producer
- Art of Fighting 2 - producer
- The King of Fighters series ('94~'95, 2003~XI, Neowave, Maximum Impact: executive producer, XIV: special thanks)
- Samurai Shodown series - (I~IV: executive producer; RPG: supervisor)
- Metal Slug X - hyper organizer
- Metal Slug 7 - executive producer
- Savage Reign - executive producer
- SNK vs Capcom: SVC Chaos - executive producer
- Neo Geo Battle Coliseum - executive producer
- Psycho Soldier Music Cassette - composer
- Athena the Music - composer
- 100 Mega Shock! - composer
Videos[]
References[]
- ↑ "People who were born on July 7 - Dates of Birth (Birthdays) Database" (in Japanese). Straw-wara's information intersection. Straw-wara. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
- ↑ "SNK Playmore acquired by Chinese company". Dream Cancel. 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2019-12-20.