Shigeru Miyamoto
| “ | I'm certain Mr. Miyamoto wants to meet up with me and discuss the future of Sonichu and the Sonichu Alpha Project, as much as I'd be humbled and honored to meet with him and discuss the matter; PROBABLY MORE FOR HIM, becuase I am the Original Creator of Sonichu, Rosechu, the other associated characters and the city of Cwcville around them all. | ” |
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Creator of legendary Nintendo video games such as Mario, Zelda & Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic, as well as colleague of Reggie Fils-Aimé, Shigeru has been in contact with Chris for some time over making a game for Sonichu, in spite of Chris's constant mispronounciation of his name.
Early Contact
On August 17th, 2008, Chris asked his fanbase to ask Nintendo and Sega for a Sonichu game.
A troll, using a spoof e-mail sender (hence the awkward backslashes), sent this e-mail to Chris:
Dear Chris Chandler,
Good evening. My name is Shigeru Miyamoto. Perhaps you\'ve heard of me. If you haven\'t, then allow me to introduce myself. I am the general manager of Nintendo and creator of Mario, Zelda, and countless other franchises.
I normally do not talk directly to fans in this matter as I am a very busy man. However, over the past few months, I have received countless amounts of emails from your fans stating that you wish for my company and Sega to create a game based on your fan character.
I am sorry to say this but I cannot and will not allow this to happen. There are several problems with your proposal, the first of wich is the simple fact that your character is NOT original. You can not make a game by combining two characters from opposing companies and then call it a new game. Things do not work this way.
Second of all, I have read your comics and they would not make a good concept for a game. It seems as though your comics are all about you and your personal problems.
You seem to have created a sort of alternate reality based around you and you only. You must understand one thing if you want to make a game. Video games are a medium where you must think of what other people want. Nobody wants to play a game where it\'s all about you and you only. Nobody wants to play a game about a person\'s inner thoughts and their problems with the world. People have problems of their own. People play games to escape from the problems of the real world, into a reality that they can feel a part of. Your game idea doesn\'t provide that. It only focuses on you and the things that bother you.
Third, I have already spoken with the president of Sega and he even thought that it was proposturous. Not only that, the amount of cooperation it wiould talk to make such a game would never work in reality. Even if we did merge Pikachu and Sonic, who would take the credit for it? Sega would lose the character that basically is their identity and Nintendo would end up with a character that quite frankley just isn\'t an original or new idea.
I\'m sorry but we can\'t do this and we outright refuse to have any part in your game idea proposal. Please stop sending us emails about this as it is simply not possible or probable for us to even entertain such an idea.
Please don\'t take this too hard on yourself. Maybe someday you can come up with an original idea and we can work togehter [sic]. But right now, you don\'t seem to have anything that can work as a video game. I wish you luck in your future endevours and I hope you have a nice day.
Sincerely, Shigery Miyamoto
General Manager, Nintendo Company Ltd.
Chris posted this facepalm inducing response:
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The Big Brain behind Super Mario, Zelda and other Popular Nintendo characters and games, Shigeru Miyamoto, sent me an e-mail with his response to the Sonichu Game Project. He says Nay, but I bet's he could be holding out on us, or something. So, I say this unto you, my loyal fans, continue with the e-mails and Forum Talks with Nintendo and SEGA of America or Japan. They are missing out on a REAL Profitable thing they can work with me on and cash in handsomely. I sent a detailed reply, but it came back to me in a "Mailer Daemon" message, so I've taken the liberty of printing a copy of the original message, and a copy of my reply that I will send to Nintendo of America for them to transfer to Mr. Miyamoto himself. Give them time and messages. |
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This is an early example of Chris's delusional thinking, flat out ignoring the unpleasant truth that his game idea sucks. He then demanded that any contact from Nintendo be written or via phone. However, as always, Chris never learns.
The Miyamoto Saga
See main article Miyamoto Saga
In January 2009, Chris started to receive e-mails from Shigeru Miyamoto. Despite his suspicions from his last encounter, since Miyamoto was informing Chris that he was interested in meeting Chris to talk about creating a Sonichu game (read: something that Chris wants to hear, as opposed to the other Miyamoto e-mail), Chris magically forgot about in person, phone, or snail mail contact and immediately fell for it. The result? The Miyamoto Saga.
The Miyamoto Saga involved some hilarious videos including Chris mispronouncing Miyamoto (Me-ya-moh-toh) as Maya - Moto, performing the female equivelent of the Japanese greeting bow (Women in Japan bow with their hands crossed at the front, whilst men keep their hands to their sides) as well as presenting a racist Japanese impersnation of the commercial "Wii would like to play".
He also though that Mr Miyamoto would like to see Chris' vanadlized wiimote with piss-poor sonichu decor in yellow and sky blue in the vague hope that Mr Miyamoto would see a market for wiimote covers
Video
Video Transcript
[bows deeply] Ohayō, Mr. Miyamoto-san. [loudly sets down Wii Remote and Nunchuk] I am he-- I have br-- decided to, uh, do this video standing up, as I felt it more appropriate, so that I could also loan myself to battle for your presence and such. [sighs] Anyway… I have checked my, uh, e-mail account. No trolls have sent any-- any slanderous e-mails or-- any e-mails, or-- Nobody has hacked my AOL account of chrischansonichu@aol.com. So… you ha-- so, you’re still talking to the real Christian Weston Chandler. [removes glasses dramatically] Believe me. [inhales deeply, sighs, and returns glasses to face] And also, uh, y’know, I’ve sent you a… ner--[?]… Also, I can also further prove it… [reaches into pocket] My driver’s license. [holds license up close] I cover my, uh, number on there… but if you look closely enough, you can-- if you look at-- in one part, if you-- you can see the, uh, “Virginia”… and the state numbers on there. [puts license back in pocket] The state-shaped logo on there.
And also, Mr. Miyamoto… [picks up Wii Remote and Nunchuk] my Wii Remote and Nunchuk. [holds out Nunchuk at length] “We would like to play” [bows, holding the Wii Remote and Nunchuk in front of himself] to quote the commercial in a honorable way, if I may. [sets down Wii Remote and Nunchuk again]
So, Mr. Miyamoto, please, uh… do not i-- do not disres-- do not, uh, a-- do not, uh, quote me as a-- a troll, because I am a real deal, believe me. I mean, although I guess I do deserve it, upon retrospect, since I, uh-- [inhales deeply and sighs] made the, uh, accusation myself. So, hopefully, we can set this-- set this minor business as-- minor bit of bad business aside and continue on for good business. And hopefully, I will be able to, uh, meet with you in Redmond… as soon as possible. I’ll be talking to my church congregation tomorrow. And, uh, I wish you a pleasant day, Miyamoto-san. [bows deeply] Sayonara for now.
Trolled
Chris eventually received an official response from Nintendo, and only then did it become clear to Chris that he had, yet again, been the victim of slanderous trolls. In true Chris style, he proclaimed victory.