Mario RPGs And Director Chihiro Fujioka’s Life In Games - MinnMax Interview

MinnMax’s Ben Hanson interviews director Chihiro Fujioka about his amazing career in games, where he directed Super Mario RPG on the Super Nintendo, wrote Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, directed Tomato Adventure on the GameBoy Advance, and was a pivotal figure with the Mario and Luigi RPG series from AlphaDream. They talk about working with Shigeru Miyamoto, Geno in Super Smash Bros, and what it’s like to be in band with Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. You can unlock the podcast version of this interview by supporting MinnMax on Patreon - If you speak Japanese and want to hear the raw audio of the interview, check out this unlisted version here - To learn more about the under-appreciated Tomato Adventure, check out our video feature here - Thanks to (Resident Evil superfan) Alex Aniel for translating our interview - To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...