Any info on ZUN's pre-Touhou career?

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Estebang
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Any info on ZUN's pre-Touhou career?

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The most I've read is that he worked on Darius Gaiden. There was a post here a while back with comparison shots of numerous bullet patterns from the game that found their way into Touhou almost verbatim. Are there any other Taito games he's known to have been involved with?

I wouldn't be surprised if "ZUN" is a reference to ZUNTATA.
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Re: Any info on ZUN's pre-Touhou career?

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ZUN had nothing to do with Darius Gaiden, he only took inspiration from it. He didn't start working at Taito until years later and he only did these games:
International League Soccer
Magic Pengel
Bujingai
Graffiti Kingdom
EXIT

And yes, ZUN is a reference to their in-house band. Here's his tribute to MAR.

To answer your question, no, he didn't do anything before Touhou. The 1st 5 Touhou games were actually developed while he was still taking classes IIRC.
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Re: Any info on ZUN's pre-Touhou career?

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Yeah, I thought he was a bit young to have worked on Gaiden.

Bujingai is that PS2 Onimusha-like with Gackt's likeness and voice acting--I've been wondering for some time if it's any good. Neat to learn ZUN worked on it.
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