This guy was working in the videogame industry when the ultimate game system was Nintendo -- that 8-bit console. He worked in Hudson Software and the main character of the game Adventure Island is himself. In fact, the japanese name of that game is Takahashi Meijin no Bouken Jima.
But he is not only a videogames developer is an autentic crack that is able to hit 16 times a second the gamepad buttons. This is so powerful that he can split a watermelon only with his fingers:
Although, his greatest achievement was the Game King title in 1995. That is like the "Japanese Videogame Championship", but on tv. This is the opening of the special program:
And this is the competition.
After that he received the title of Meijin, that is a title with deep roots in the Japanese culture and you can translate to the occidental idea of Master of the Universe. Actually, Meijin is the title that has the champion of one of the most important and old go championships that started in the Edo period.
But all this formal title didn't prevent that he made that on tv:
PS: Please, forgive that post! The main reason for writing that is that I am too lazy to search this youtube links each time I need to show this to somebody.
