What Was Yume Kojo? (Original 2016 Version)
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0:00 Act 1: "Yume Kojo Was an Event!"
3:45 CM 1: Doki Doki Panic (1987) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1986) Yume Kojo: Yoru ga Tanoshii (1987)
4:48 Act 2: "The Planning and Promotion of Yume Kojo"
12:35 CM 2: Yume Kojo Sponsorship (1987) Super Mario USA (1992) Imaginia Promo (1987)
13:33 Act 3: "The Events of Yume Kojo"
17:45 Epilogue: "Visions of The Future Have Come to Pass"
Episode information
GTV 12 "What Was Yume Kojo" Season 1 Episode 12
Original Airdate: July 18, 2016
Produced September 2015-July 2016,
Recorded and edited my old, old 2011 MacBook Air
with, of course, pirated versions of Final Cut Pro and Photoshop.
Game footage captured on OpenEmu, which is also free!
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I found a long lost book explaining what Yume Kojo was! It really had almost NOTHING to do with Doki Doki Panic, but is a very interesting story! Here’s a rundown!
1984- Fuji Tv executive Haruo Shikanai, manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori and others go to Carnival in Brazil. It inspires them to hold a large scale event in Japan similar to that.
84-85 Plans begin for a large scale event, run by Fuji Media with the idea based around technology, the future and the power of dreams. Those in charge of design are called "Imagineers"
85-86 The events are finalized and focus on high end technology. The name Yume Kojo is chosen and is written in English as "Dream Machine" Imajin is chosen as the mascot.
July 18, 1986 Imajin debuts and Yume Kojo is announced to begin one year from this date. Two music groups also called Yume Kojo start promotion on radio and TV. 250 different items like Coke cans, shirts and pins are sold for promotion.
July 10, 1987 Nintendo releases Yume Kojo Doki Doki Panic for the Famicom Disk System as part of this promotion. It sold for ¥2980 and sold 350,000 copies overall.
July 18 - August 30, 1987 Yume Kojo (Dream Machine) was open in Tokyo and Osaka. Both areas were equal with live events and technology displays. 5.7 million people attended over 44 days.
Dec 9, 1987 Fuji TV releases a book covering everything about Yume Kojo and explains everything down the smallest detail. It was sent by mail to those who preordered one while at Yume Kojo
April 16, 1988 Yume Kojo creator Haruo Shikanai passes away at age 42
Oct 10, 1988 Nintendo re-works Doki Doki Panic into Super Mario Bros 2. Millions of players outside of Japan are unaware that Japan had received a different Mario 2 and Doki Doki Panic as well.
Sep 14, 1992 Super Mario 2 is re-re-worked for Japan as Super Mario USA.
1990s-2000s The internet allows people to learn about the Doki Doki Panic / Mario 2 connection but no accurate information on Yume Kojo is found.
Feb 2016 An Unknown YouTuber with zero subscribers finds a copy of the Fuji book and begins to translate. He is the first person on the internet to learn the full, real, true story.
July 18, 2016 Exactly 30 years from the first announcement of Yume Kojo, GTV Japan releases the video that explains it all for the first time in human history!
July 10, 2017 Yume Kojo Doki Doki Panic 30th anniversary. It was actually covered by Kotaku! Shock!!
December 12 2019, This video passes 50,000 views on YouTube! 100,000? Well, I wasn't so lucky...
Sources: All of the research and information for this video came from a book called 夢工場全記録 (Yume Kojo Complete Chronicle) However, some images come from elsewhere.
Nintendo Power Issue 1 p7
Nintendo Mario Mania p21
Consumer Guide’s More Strategies for Nintendo Games (1989) p52
Other video clips from Document Yume Kojo 87
Other scans from the instruction book to Doki Doki Panic
Other Videos By GTV Japan
Other Statistics
Doki Doki Panic Statistics For GTV Japan
GTV Japan currently has 89,012 views spread across 1 video for Doki Doki Panic. Less than an hour worth of Doki Doki Panic videos were uploaded to his channel, making up less than 0.63% of the total overall content on GTV Japan's YouTube channel.