It’s not a stretch to say that tens of millions of individuals worldwide are acquainted with Colonel Sanders and his secret mix of spices that helped him set up the worldwide fast-food chain, Kentucky Fried Rooster, or KFC for brief.
Sanders himself has all the time been the icon and character related to the model, and has appeared in a number of types of media, together with video games.
He additionally may’ve appeared in Tekken 8 as a visitor character, if KFC hadn’t mentioned no to the concept when Tekken creator Katsuhiro Harada requested.
In an interview with TheGamer, Harada confirmed that he’d needed to see the Colonel struggle in his recreation, and went to the KFC workplaces in Japan with a pitch. It was by no means nicely obtained.
“A very long time in the past, I needed to have Colonel Sanders from Kentucky Fried Rooster struggle,” Harada mentioned within the interview. “So, I requested to make use of Colonel Sanders and go to the pinnacle workplace in Japan.” Harada then admits he was given a “unhealthy look” alongside along with his no, and determined to not struggle it.
Lead recreation designer Michael Murrary provides to the story, saying “[Harada] went to Kentucky Fried Rooster and tried to get Colonel Sanders. They weren’t very open to the concept. [Colonel Sanders] appeared in video games after that. So perhaps it was simply him preventing towards somebody [that] was posing an issue for them. But it surely simply goes to point out how troublesome most of these discussions are.”
Supply – [TheGamer]