Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto now makes gacha games

Fuji TV's series Where Did That Money Go? profiles game designer Yoshiki Okamoto. During his years at Capcom he worked as producer on Final Fight and Street Fighter 2 and accumulated credits on Darkstalkers and Resident Evil titles.

He left Capcom to found Game Republic in 2003, but ran into trouble when American publisher Brash Entertainment went bankrupt, leaving him with debts of 1.7 billion yen (almost $US11 million). Okamoto rebuilt his career with Monster Strike, a mobile gacha game that had more than 65 million players as of December.

Today he works as a producer at Deluxe Games, with a portfolio of gacha hits, an annual income of 1.2 billion yen ($US7.7 million), and a Malaysian mansion described as "the size of about 20 tennis courts."

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