Squaresoft's Secret Konami Game

DESCRIPTONA 1997 horizontal shoot-em-up about a kamikaze pilot from the Moon attacking a city named after Sodom — built by ex-Konami programmers inside Square at the peak of the Final Fantasy VII era.I want to talk about why Einhänder exists, why the production story matters more than most people realize, and why the game is one of the most specific shmups ever made.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS00:00 - Intro03:06 - Part 1 — The Konami Game Hiding Inside Square 12:13 - Part 2 —Squaresoft is Hiding in the Name20:35 - Part 3 — Stricken from the Records━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SOURCESEinhänder on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einh%C3...Einhänder Deep Dive — Paul Brownlee, Hardcore Gaming 101 (2007)https://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ein...Re-release This: Einhänder — Marc Normandin, Retro XPhttps://retroxp.substack.com/p/re-rel...Einhänder Review — Rob Fahey, Eurogamerhttps://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ei...Einhänder Feature — Automaton Westhttps://automaton-media.com/en/review...Einhänder Review — Greg Kasavin, GameSpot (1998)https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/einh...Einhänder Review — Jay Boor, IGN (1998)https://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/...TGS: Einhänder Steals the Show — IGN (1997)https://www.ign.com/articles/1997/09/...Square Enix Osaka Studio History — NeoGAFhttps://www.neogaf.com/threads/square...Kenichiro Fukui Composer Profile — VGMOhttp://www.vgmonline.net/kenichirofukui/Einhänder Original Soundtrack Review — Soundtrack Centralhttps://soundtrackcentral.com/einhand...Einhänder OST Review — VGMOhttp://www.vgmonline.net/einhander/ROM HACKS & PRESERVATIONEinhänder Soundtrack in FLAC — Internet Archivehttps://archive.org/details/einhander...Einhänder Regional Differences — The Cutting Room Floorhttps://tcrf.net/Einh%C3%A4nderEinhänder Plot Analysis FAQ — MMitchell, GameFAQshttps://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/1972...Einhänder FAQ — Zach Keene, GameFAQshttps://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/1972...FAN PROJECTSMetal Crisis — An Indie Einhänder Homage Currently in Developmenthttps://www.timeextension.com/news/20...COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONRTTP: Einhänder — NeoGAFhttps://www.neogaf.com/threads/rttp-e...Einhänder Discussion Thread — shmups.system11.orghttps://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic...Kingdom Hearts III Einhänder Easter Egg Discussion — ResetErahttps://www.resetera.com/threads/kh3-...━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SUPPORT THE CHANNELPatreon — / gaming \_memories Discord — / discord Everything else — https://linktr.ee/gamingmemoriesBusiness inquiries — [email protected]